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

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …

immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women?s unemployment rates are driven …

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on …

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model … efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …