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 …

determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of the Great Divergence in income per capita across …

that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …

We examine how globalization affects firms incentives to train workers. In our model, firms invest in productivity … firms in countries with different training systems face globalization of product markets. In particular, apprenticeship …

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to …