little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … differences in labor mobility and reallocation costs, which are typically ignored in American "International Trade" textbooks … human capital investments: they are not independent of the aggregate state of labor markets, and in particular, frictions …

progress. -- Out of Africa hypothesis ; human genetic diversity ; comparative development ; population density ; Neolithic …

Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative … effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The … available empirical evidence suggests a non-monotonic relation between capital-labor ratios and EPL: positive at very low levels …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …. This paper shows that labor and credit market imperfections interact in a complementary way - which may explain why …

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data … we investigate the impact of spatial mismatch on the unemployment rate of ethnic groups using the matching model proposed …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labor market problems. The main …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …