Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …

Using a rich German panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany. This study … immigrant's perspective. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants' experience earnings profiles are flatter on … differences between natives and immigrants remain. They are particularly noticeable for highly skilled immigrants, the group …

few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …

) reaction to rising and falling unemployment. In contrast, wage growth in establishments without collective bargaining adjusts … only to falling unemployment and is unaffected by rising unemployment. …

-group favoritism and discrimination among multiple out-groups. Individuals expect others to be in-group biased, as well as to be …

Employing a standard matching unemployment model extended by within-labor-market-regions commuting, this paper analyzes … the tradeoff between commuting costs and unemployment. Depending on whether commuters are able to bargain for fringe …, unemployment benefits should be tied to search in high productivity regions. Using German county data, the paper tests some …

aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …

unemployment, this paper theoretically investigates the importance of labor market duality on labor market volatilities. The new … insight is that duality leads to a non-linear reaction of unemployment volatility for both supply and demand shocks. A … subsequent empirical panel data analysis confirms the model predictions. Uncovering the non-linearity in unemployment volatility …

This paper shows how fiscal policy affects unemployment in a New Keynesian model with search and matching frictions and …. Several findings stand out. First, unemployment mult ipliers for spending and consumption tax cuts are substantial, even …