-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …

relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of Innovation, endogenous growth, and unemployment in a disaggregated … economy. Unemployment is analyzed w ithin a dual labor market setting, where the labor market is consisting of a primary high … the economy's growth rate and the equilibrium unemployment rate. It can be shown in comparative static analyses, that the …

that all the shortrun fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …