improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the … discuss new evidence of labor market networks that are to some extent stratified by race, which may help explain racial … urban blacks, and because, in the case of MTO, the role of labor market networks was weakened. Finally, we discuss policies …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … identified as a key reason for the rising US wage inequality, while labor market rigidities are often cited as a key reason for … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the …

decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis …This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European …

bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective …

Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population … ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies … interdependencies with the labor market situation in Europe. We place particular emphasis on the issue of non-competitive wage setting …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … differences in labor mobility and reallocation costs, which are typically ignored in American ?International Trade? textbooks … human capital investments: they are not independent of the aggregate state of labor markets, and in particular, frictions …

unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting …The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the … European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of …

the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions. Positive shocks in the textile, iron, and coal industries increased … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …