up to 29 years. I find that high and progressive labour taxes and generous unemployment benefits amplify labour income …

wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the … impact of the theoretically-based measures of job competition is rather similar to the wage impact of the unemployment rate …

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 …

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 …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a …