Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses …

Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In … emissions have renewed the interest in the development of alternative energy resources. In particular, the Fukushima Daiichi … accident was a turning point in the call for alternative energy sources. Renewable energy is now considered a more desirable …

The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several … scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of … individual and groups of countries and to analyze the environmental effects of energy policies. Previous studies have analyzed …

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 …

age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …

factors that have contributed tothis development include the strong position of the German economy due to recent labormarket …

contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …

unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase thevolume of … capital flows, because of stronger employment adjustments in comparison with acompetitive economy. We next exploit the model … to investigate how demographicasymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …

protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played acrucial … role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment,wage cuts or income losses and rising … thefinancial and economic crisis that hit the global economy in 2008-2009 impacted these labourmarket developments and to what …