Why do people join open-shop unions when they would receive union wage rates even if they were not members? Why are … considers the idea that unions offer insurance against victimization and arbitrary dismissal. Consistent with our theoretical … approach, we find that union density is greatest, ceteris paribus, within establishments in areas of high unemployment …

recovered but unemployment lingered). This paper presents a model that captures these three facts. The key elements of the model …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that, contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due to …

This paper analyzes the effects of environmental policy on employment (and unemployment) using a new general … unemployment) is small, even in the short run. An environmental performance standard causes a substantially smaller sectoral shift …

We study the incidence of pollution taxes and their impact on unemployment in an analytical general equilibrium … efficiency wage model. We find closed-form solutions for the effect of a pollution tax on unemployment, factor prices, and output …