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 …

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 …

A number of authors have recently emphasized that the conventional model of unemployment dynamics due to Mortensen and …

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 …

frictions characterized by employment loss and employment opportunity arrival shocks. We argue that it is able to account for … shocks play a key role in allowing the model to match the persistence of the employment and out of the labor force states …

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