of feed-in-tariffs and renewable portfolio standard policies showed that the former is good when a policy to develop … renewable energy sources with a low level of risk for investors is considered. However, the latter is an appropriate policy when … a market view policy is applied by the government. …

aggregate demand by increasing exports and reducing imports which increases production and reduces the unemployment rate in the … income for people who have already a job, while the reduction in the level of unemployment permits to some individuals to …

unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past … (1950-2010). We show that a policy reform in one country also has an impact on labor markets in other countries when capital …

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 …