Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a … transition rates: (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the …

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …

We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …

bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non …

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and … fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the … same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for skilled workers, as compared to an equilibrium where fairness …

therefore, in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, a firm can increase its domestic employment through offshoring. Also, such a …In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by …