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 …

of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

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 …

country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to retirement decisions that allows us to unveil the factors which explain why …

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 …

Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …