improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the … discuss new evidence of labor market networks that are to some extent stratified by race, which may help explain racial … urban blacks, and because, in the case of MTO, the role of labor market networks was weakened. Finally, we discuss policies …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … identified as a key reason for the rising US wage inequality, while labor market rigidities are often cited as a key reason for … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the …

decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis …This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European …

the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions. Positive shocks in the textile, iron, and coal industries increased … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …

composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to … the Boatlift, and arises from selecting small subsamples of workers. We also show that conflicting findings on the labor …

in 2010 that is not matched by declines in happiness measures (positive affect). The fear of unemployment obtained from …