We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … opposite directions while a shock to the net flow from not in the labour force to unemployment drives the rates in the same … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

Using employee-employer matched data for the period 1999 to 2010, I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on … manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade. To derive causal effects I … utilize within-industry, within-occupation heterogeneity in workers' exposure to this trade shock. Showing significant …

that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …

We reassess the quot;scarringquot; hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the … scar from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future … insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence, the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment quot …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …