public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …

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 …

unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country’s exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …