, the model is applied to postwar monthly US unemployment series and we discover a significantly periodic cycle. Furthermore …

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate taxes on structural unemployment, using an applied general equilibrium … model for the European Union. We find that the unemployment and welfare effects of corporate taxes differ considerably among …, and the strength of international spillover effects through foreign direct investment. The effect on unemployment is …

assistance. Our findings show that the assistance reduces unemployment among the treated, but also creates substantial … displacement leading to higher unemployment for the non-treated. By using detailed information on caseworker and job seeker … unemployment and slightly reduced government spending. …

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 …

In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the … development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We … facilitate a balancing of the budget has strong adverse effects on unemployment and real GDP. …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … of the same workers. The latter provide information on durations of unemployment and personal characteristics of all … results based on only survey data: selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of durations of unemployment and non …

The well-known positive relationship between the unemployment benefit level and unemployment duration can be separated … difficult to separate empirically, but the social optimality of an unemployment insurance policy can be evaluated by studying … the effect of a non-distortionary lump-sum severance grant on unemployment durations. In this study, I evaluate the …

increase in the pace of job creation and destruction may have substantial effects on employment and unemployment;the effects … may be out of its unemployment equilibrium for quite a long time after a shock occurs.The novelty of the model is that it … takes explicitly account of the propagationof shocks through the various duration classes of unemployment andallows for …