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

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

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 …

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 …

causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …