decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This cost of search is then decomposed into three components: unemployment … workers being more choosy. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment benefits can reduce the loss by serving as …

This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be …

the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … subsequent tax rate adjustments to balance the budget lead to employment levels substantially lower than theoretically predicted …

by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …