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 … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

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 … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

; iii) increase with the interaction of rent size and the unemployment rate and decrease with the interaction of rent size …

This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the … of sample selection and unobserved heterogeneity are also addressed in the analyses. This study finds that, unemployment … to increase to about 14% in the fourth year before starting to decline. In addition, the first spell of unemployment is …

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

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR … with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes … shocks play adominant role in explaining unemployment also in the medium-run. Moreoverreal wages have low sensitivity to …

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. …

"This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the … across the EU: Germany as the main destination before enlargement attracts only modest immigration flows since 2004, while … employment gains, but also with a smaller wage increase and a smaller decline of the unemployment rate. The diversion of …

"This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the … across the EU: Germany as the main destination before enlargement attracts only modest immigration flows since 2004, while … employment gains, but also with a smaller wage increase and a smaller decline of the unemployment rate. The diversion of …