postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

time the UK labour market has also evolved and in particular now has an historically low level of unemployment, accompanied …

wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …

reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for …In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and … based on the British Household Panel Survey, suggest that WFTC eligibility served to increase expected wages and that …

. The study could not find any significant effects of unemployment duration on subsequent wages in addition to the incidence …This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the … of sample selection and unobserved heterogeneity are also addressed in the analyses. This study finds that, unemployment …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell …, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages …

and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as …

This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … positively related to the unemployment level. This general conclusion is robust to sub-sampling that addresses potential …

unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional … unemployment rates imply a lower availability of jobs for the unemployed, it decreases the expectations individuals have of finding …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment …-firm matches may vary across metropolitan areas. In equilibrium, higher local productivity results in higher nominal wages, higher …