the one hand, lower reservation wages reduce unemployment duration, but on the other hand, agents have shorter spells of … active search and hence higher exit rate from unemployment into nonparticipation. The effect of these measures on total … employment is ambiguous in the model. Simulations show that there are cases when reduction of the unemployment benefits …

ofincidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both.Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekerswho come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to fouryears …With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates …

My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment … high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor market hinders workers from finding a suitable match. I focus on …-skill unemployment dynamics. I capture the across-skill search externalities and spillover effects that arise when low- and high …

duration of post-unemployment job matches. On the other hand, an increase in skill mismatch in the aggregate production … Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem …

relation between the job–finding rate and the vacancy–unemployment ratio, provided that search costs are small and that search …

immigration. The first paper gives an overview on the economic literature on the impact of immigration on unemployment and wages … Arbeitsmarktergebnis (bspw. Löhne und Arbeitslosigkeit) sowie die einheimische Immigrationspolitik. Wir erweitern damit die bestehende … Papier gibt eine Übersicht zur bestehenden Literatur bezüglich des Einflusses von Immigration auf Löhne und Arbeitslosigkeit …

In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We … affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given minimum real wage. The bottom-line was that product market reforms … will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under most circumstances.Modeling a microfoundation of mark-ups, we have …

This work analyzes the saving and consumption behavior of agents faced with the possibility of unemployment in a …