unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and …

natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … but skill-biased on aggregate, skilled immigration can increase absolute and relative skilled wages. Therefore, firm … natives' wages. …

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

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 the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages, and net output, but cannot be …This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and …

This paper reviews the Italian unemployment experience, analyzing in particular the time-series behavior of … unemployment rates along the path that brought Italy into Europe s Economic and Monetary Union, and their disaggregated structure … across geographical and demographic dimensions. High aggregate unemployment is a reflection of highly concentrated …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …