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 …

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 …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

We develop a model where workers, anticipating the possibility of unemployment, invest in connections to access …

dispersion. In the UK and the US, where the bottom of the wage distribution is more dispersed, the inactivity rate (sometimes … from the period 1994-2001. I find a sizable and significant effect of the wage on inactivity in the UK and the US but none … in France. The probability of unemployment as a function of the wage decreases more rapidly in the UK and the US than it …