rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

work from unemployment insu rance, we do not find that the weighting method outperforms Cox survivor function predictions. …

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 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 …

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …