equilibrium, thereby generating unemployment in the ‘East’. This slows the migration of human capital towards the East, but …

Theoretical predictions of the impact of TFP growth on unemployment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which … creative destruction effects by estimating the impact of TFP growth on unemployment in a panel of industrial countries. We find …-state dynamics of unemployment. Capitalization effects explain some of the estimated impact but a part remains unexplained. …

. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage … policies on wages and unemployment. …

This paper starts from the observation that despite their very high levels of unemployment, major European countries … have devoted few resources to reducing it. This suggests that there is little political concern about high unemployment. I …

We present a static model of aggregate demand and unemployment. The economy has a nonproduced good, a produced good … prices as parameters. We obtain the following results: (1) unemployment and unsold production prevail in equilibrium; (2 … and reduce unemployment. …

We argue that US welfare would rise if unemployment insurance were increased for younger and decreased for older … workers. This is because the young tend to lack the means to smooth consumption during unemployment and want jobs to … accumulate high-return human capital. So unemployment insurance is most valuable to them, while moral hazard is mild. By …

distribution of firm characteristics, sorting patterns between firms and workers, and unemployment rates that can help explaining …