explore the joint determination of wages, unemployment, house prices and city size (or migration). A key role of the model is …

laws, permanent unemployment subsidies, firing costs, etc. Such policies create incentives to develop and adopt labor …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

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 …

extraction led to an increase in aggregate US employment of 725,000 and a 0.5 percent decrease in the unemployment rate during …

unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to … able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …