, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and intrasectoral … economy-wide unemployment rate are the elasticity of substitution between inputs and the elasticity of demand for … cost of offshoring affects jobs and unemployment. We also show that the implications of a reduction in the cost of trading …

received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and …

to avoid elevated unemployment rates during the transition. …

In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment … wealth decreases, a finding which is in accordance with our empirical duration analysis using micro data on unemployment … spells and run down during unemployment spells but the consumption path is never going to be completely smooth over states …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

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 …