unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …

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 …

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 …

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 …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …