characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on … ; macroeconomic volatility ; monetary policy ; firing costs ; unemployment benefits ; replacement rate …

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as …, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are estimated for the pooled crosssection of 1991 and 1995, taking into … account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second step, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …

labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …. -- Sticky wages ; staggered Nash bargaining ; trend inflation ; unemployment ; search and matching …

these two features combined generate an equilibrium comovement between matches on the one hand and unemployment and …

. -- Unemployment ; labor market search ; job flows ; labor share ; inflation ; productivity shocks ; monetary shocks …

reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the …

The standard search model of unemployment predicts, under plausible assumptions about household preferences, that … disembodied technological progress leads to higher unemployment. This prediction is at odds with the experience of industrialized … model's prediction. In the presence of nominal price rigidity faster growth is shown to lead to lower unemployment if the …