How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment … effort when unemployment benefits are extended. However, individuals are more likely to participate in the labor force and to …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our … single-sector perspective pays special attention to the role of income effects and shows that bad institutions in one country …

-over effects of labor market institutions ; unemployment ; international trade ; search frictions ; heterogeneous firms …We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our …