equate the expected urban wage (given a downward rigid real wage in the urban sector) to the real wage. Unemployment is … endogenously determined. Interpreting unemployment as damage, urban pollution (damage denoted in units of labour) can also support … the same equilibrium with the value of damage equal to the value of resources otherwise lost through unemployment. However …

This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage …

This paper proposes a model of the US unemployment rate which accounts for both its asymmetry and its long memory. Our … standard limit distribution. The empirical results suggest that the US unemployment rate can be specified in terms of a … with path dependency rather than a NAIRU model with an underlying unemployment equilibrium rate, hence giving support to …

We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment … unemployment persistence by its adverse impact on growth, and may even destabilize the adjustment path. If this is the case, a … future fiscal consolidation is needed which further raises unemployment. These results are consistent with empirical evidence …

In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment … can unambiguously increase unemployment. Interestingly, I find that tightening the restrictions on redundancies and …

unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …

In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the …, unemployment rises. More generally, we show that skill-biased technological change leads to increasing unemployment of the … inequality and unemployment under different social benefits regimes: Analyzing the social legislation in 14 countries, we find …

We develop a utility based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities, and unemployment. In doing so, we combine …-Mortensen-Pissarides model, with its focus on labor market frictions and unemployment. In developing this model, we proceed in two steps. We … effect on unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage …

cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In … this situation, government unemployment benefits reduce the wages that exporting firm's need to pay workers as risk … state can simultaneously cause an increase in unemployment and exports. …