combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …

We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …

In this paper, I study the wage a firm sets to attract high abilityworkers (hipo's) in situationsof unemployment. I … show that the higher unemployment, the larger afirm's incentives to sorthigh and low ability workers. Moreover, workers … will signal their(high) ability in situationsof (high) unemployment only if a job offers a high enough wage. Themain result …

firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …