relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- Unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …