This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor … market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey … amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that … financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document that financial recessions amplify labor … shocks to job destruction, presenting and solving a simple model of labor market search and endogenous finance. While finance …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

This paper analyzes the individual-level effects of disability onset on labor market outcomes using novel … switching to less physically or psychosocially demanding jobs are important adjustment paths. The negative labor market effects …

This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi‐sector model of the labor market for developing countries with … an iconic paradox in a class of multi‐sector labor market models in which the creation of high‐wage employment … exacerbates unemployment. Our richer setting allows for generational differences in the motivations for job search to be reflected …

This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a … estimate worker transitions between labor market states. Labor market adjustment takes place predominantly at the extensive … margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …