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

high-wage country with an imperfectly competitive labour market so that outsourcing reduces equilibrium unemployment …

It has been noted that the search and matching model cannot account for the observed unemployment fluctuations. Gertler …

outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment, when profit sharing is also a part of the compensation schemes in … wage effect. For equilibrium unemployment the effects of outsourcing cost and profit sharing are ambiguous both in case of … the absence or presence of outsourcing and in this case lower outsourcing cost will decrease unemployment …

, profit sharing, and equilibrium unemployment depending on whether in other industries profit share is or is not a part of the …. Under flexible profit sharing wage is higher if optimal profit share is small enough. For equilibrium unemployment, we find … that if there is no profit sharing in other industries, outsourcing will decrease the unemployment rate. But if profit …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

on how wages and unemployment rates adjust to economic integration. We distinguish between short-run effects for a given …