states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

Demographic differences in patterns of employment variation over the business cycle are examined in this paper. Three … primary conclusions emerge. First, both participation and unemployment must be considered in any analysis of cyclical changes … in the labor market. Second, young people bear a disproportionate share of cyclical employment variation. Third, failure …

present a theoretical overview of the effects of health insurance on mobility and wage/employment determination. I critically …

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

Shimer's calibrated version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model generates unemployment fluctuates much smaller than the … has been challenged by Costain and Reiter, who say it generates unrealistically big differences in unemployment from the …

show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values … redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment induced by the minimum wage hits the lowest surplus workers first. This …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the … impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …

labor market frictions and worker heterogeneity provides a framework for studying the impact of trade on unemployment and …