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 …

The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …

, directly from employer to employer as well as indirectly via an unemployment spell. In addition they are more likely to change …

Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s … although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …

We set up a search and matching model with a private and a public sector to understand the effects of employment and … wage policies in the public sector on unemployment and education decisions. The effects on the educational composition of …

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 …

We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well … as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. Conditional on inefficiently high public …-sector wages, more nepotism in public-sector hiring lowers the unemployment rate because it limits the size of queues for public …