mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational …

safety conditions in the home country affect immigrants' return intentions and job search behavior. We combine administrative …' labor market behavior, we show that immigrants who enter unemployment when a terrorist event hits their home country are 1 ….8 percentage points more likely to be employed within three months than immigrants who enter unemployment in quiet times. Among …

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …

This paper assesses wage setting and wage dynamics in a search and matching framework where (i) workers and firms on … wages and workers cannot commit to not searching on the job. The resulting progression of wages (from firms paying just … growth are negatively correlated with initial wages. …

We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use this for counterfactual … unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the …

small reduction in the unemployment benefits, or introducing a small cash bonus for workers that get a new job, may have no … e.ect on unemployment in some cases, while eradicating significant levels of unemployment in other cases. Our analysis … multiple equilibria may exist in a game involving both workers and an unemployment-averse government. Furthermore, we explore a …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The … worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor force …