large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …

participation rates have been rather stable over the past, the unemployment problem is mainly caused by shortages in labour demand …

unemployment. The model features both hiring freeze and bankruptcies, where the former represents a sudden shut down of vacancy … Pissarides matching model account for 10 percent of the cyclical variability of the vacancy unemployment ratio displayed by U …

This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …