Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity … model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is not automatically among them since the basic flexicurity properties … were also in place during the 1970s and 1980s where high and persistent unemployment was prevalent. Labour market …

to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric …

services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and … workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch … changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages, and net output, but cannot be …

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …