Oswald's thesis posits that workers who own their own home should have longer unemployment spells due to restricted … mobility, but repeatedly the reverse is found. We contribute to shed light on this puzzle in two key ways. First, we show that … the thesis holds when stated in terms of search intensity instead of unemployment. In a job search model with moving costs …

of human capital available to hiring companies, which drives the efficiency of matching between workers and firms and …

Variations between the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union hamper labour market mobility … accounts. This would have macroeconomic benefits and provide a solid pension provision that can enhance mobility, instead of …

literature tries to decompose this intratemporal elasticity into its main components, the "Ins and Outs of Unemployment" (Shimer …

foreign capital in the urban formal sector on unemployment and social welfare crucially hinge on the relative factor …’s twin objectives of improvement in social welfare and mitigation of the urban unemployment problem. These results are … extremely crucial from the view of policymaking in an unemployment plagued, low-income developing economy. …

argues that reducing the high degree of unemployment could contribute to peace and stability in the lives of people … which continues to be a source of grievance and social unrest. Unemployment, especially amongst the young and dislocated … security conditions allow – first to tackle the immediate problem of a very high level of unemployment and then to ensure that …

long term unemployment and exclusion, on the improvement of basic and professional qualification of the working population … in a perspective of lifelong training, namely as a way to prevent unemployment phenomena, and on the preventive …