This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high …

. Barriers to entrepreneurship, to setting up new firms and to innovations which are prevalent on goods and capital markets also … play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …

conducive business regulations amplify the positive impact on firm creation of better education and reduced skill mismatches. To … escape a low-productivity trap, policymakers should thus create a pro-business framework and a wellfunctioning education …

theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

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

I construct and analyze a growth model in which technical change can increase unemployment. I first analyze the forces … that deliver a constant steady state unemployment rate in this setting. Labor-saving technical change increases … unemployment, which lowers wages and creates incentives for future investment in labor-using technologies. In the long run, this …

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 …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

also how skill formation or education affects unemployment among the remaining uneducated. We have developed a general …In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to … equilibrium model of a small open developing economy incorporating skill formation, unemployment of unskilled labour in the formal …