This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

taxation. In addition, the appearance of equilibrium unemployment also provides an incentive for the government to directly tax …

unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime …

unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We … analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level … decrease the duration in unemployment. Extensive numerical simulations indicate that the relationship between the level of the …

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal income tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …