This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after … workforce during the Great Recession. Policy approaches to address high African American male unemployment are outlined in the …1. The Position of African American Men in the US Labor Market Prior to the Great Recession for the Years 2002 …

labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different industries are rare relative to the …. In fact, evidence suggest that changes in the demand for labor were accommodated mostly through demographic flows, with a …

Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard searchmodels of the labor market, all … positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this outcome through related capital and labor mobilitypatterns... …