rigidities and trade impediments in shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, price levels and unemployment rates. We show that … patterns of unemployment. Specifically, trade integration -- which benefits both countries -- may raise their rates of … unemployment. Moreover, differences in rates of unemployment do not necessarily reflect differences in labor market rigidities; the …

the effects of unemployment insurance on measured and actual employment, unemployment and non-participation. The data are … effect of UI on unemployment duration and temporary layoffs. The results are rather inconclusive, but suggest the importance …

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment …

Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual … outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment rates according to its official … statistics. This paper calculates, for the first time, China's unemployment rate from 1988 to 2009 using a more reliable …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E … sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional … shifts in demographics, occupation, industry, region, and the reason for unemployment jointly account for very little of the …

The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great … Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment. The decline is disproportionately concentrated … experienced quite different wage and employment trends. Neither taxes nor transfers appear likely to explain the employment …

occupation. Because the probability of re-employment, conditional on unemployment, appears to have declined with age, the … male Americans experiencing 6 months or more of unemployment in the previous year (quot;long-term unemployedquot;). In … probability of experiencing long-term unemployment rose as persons aged. Census data are consistent with the view that the older …

The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the … these trends in black employment and incarceration. Using data drawn from the 1960-2000 U.S. Censuses, we find a strong … correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants …