. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …

by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one …

performance. We test these hypotheses using county level data from West Germany, employing a structural equation model to analyze …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …