This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …

. Government incentives to production may alleviate high unemployment in this economy, but at the cost of exacerbating sclerosis …

and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …

candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …, and between individuals with differing unemployment durations. I then use these hazards to explore a variety of …

poor labor market to a better labor market. We find that modifications raise the unemployment rate by about 0.5 percentage … individuals losing skills as unemployment duration is longer …

This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the … determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural … unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions result from …

This paper surveys recent research on employment and unemployment in the 1930s. Unlike earlier studies that tended to … dispute the view that representative-agent models are useful for interpreting shifts in employment and unemployment over the …

61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and … family serves as a form of welfare; (3) hazard rates linking the chances of job finding to duration of unemployment in the … 1981-85 period of massive joblessness did not decline with duration; (4) the length of unemployment spells reduces wages …

-market recovery from financial crises is characterized by either higher unemployment ("jobless recovery") or a lower real wage …