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 …

; iii) increase with the interaction of rent size and the unemployment rate and decrease with the interaction of rent size …

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 … to increase to about 14% in the fourth year before starting to decline. In addition, the first spell of unemployment is …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment … and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

for services sectors. It reflects national inflation and productivity growth, while labour market tightness is negligible …

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by …