It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

quantitatively underestimates the correlation of structural unemployment rates across countries. This mirrors the well-known finding … by Shimer (2005) by which thestandard search-and-matching model predicts too small fluctuations of unemployment rates …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock … estimated treatment effects is quite similar for the three time intervals of elapsed unemployment considered. The positive …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock … estimated treatment effects is quite similar for the three time intervals of elapsed unemployment considered. The positive …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …