, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …

low-type workers have become increasingly sorted into low-type firms over time, especially out of unemployment. This …

Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … welfare gains but gives rise to large wage differentials. -- job search ; wage bargaining ; wage differentials ; unemployment … ; unemployment insurance …

In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between … individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect … changes in education and region of origin are accounted for, we find that the unobservable skills of newly arriving immigrants …

depending on the geographical settlement patterns of immigrants. Both mechanisms make natives and migrants appear as imperfect …

, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent …