We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment … and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres … particular, result in a higher probability of subsequent employment. Conditional on finding work, replying to advertisements …

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued … causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main …

employment; they are publicly employed (supply labor) and they have an important say in deciding the size of the municipal … employment (demand labor). In this paper we present and estimate a theoretical model that focuses on this double role of … Swedish municipalities 1990-2002, show that wages have smaller effects on the demand for bureaucrats than on the demand for …

This paper studies how wages respond to a sudden change in employer concentration. It exploits a reform that …, elasticities of wages with respect to labor market concentration are estimated to be between -0.02 and -0.05. The empirical … paper adds to a growing literature that finds that market concentration matters for workers' wages, in a context where labor …

creation. It has been shown that unemployment has far-reaching effects, all leading to an inequitable distribution of well …-being. But many economists assume that unemployment tends toward a natural rate below which it cannot go without creating … inflation. The paper considers a particular employment strategy: a government job creation program, such as an employment …

The job guarantee is a viable policy option for tackling both unemployment and underemployment. Hyman P. Minsky was one …