previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … as women, tend to systematically demand lower wages. Also, we find that workers with high wage demands are contacted by … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …

explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark … demographic groups have sharply different predictions for macroeconomic aggregates like the inflation rate …

This paper combines matching frictions with e¢ ciency wages to deter shirking in a model that is estimated for the USA … both countries, both matching frictions and efficiency wages play a significant role in enabling the model to fit the data …

This paper develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the … eighteenth century to the twentieth and compare them with leading cities in Europe, Japan and India in terms of nominal wages … Europe. Real wages declined in China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and rose slowly in the late nineteenth …

Unemployment immediately upon graduation is associated with substantial and permanent future earnings losses. Even for … very short unemployment spells the estimated earnings losses are statistically significant. These results are stable for … that unemployment upon graduation has the causal effect of reducing future earnings prospects. …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …