Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low …

structural change. Our objective is to shed light on the way labor market institutions affect aggregate employment, job …

the bottom of the wage distribution. By using this framework, we shed light on the way in which labour market institutions …

that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional work at … home. In contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically, reduced market work is largely substituted by … additional time in household production. -- Unemployment ; time use ; household production ; paid work …