We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz' (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow … effect of trade influences labor market outcomes. Trade liberalization lowers unemployment and raises real wages as long as …

structural unemployment is concerned, the latter increases only with the degree of countries' specialization on capital … intensively manufactured products in inter-industry trade relations. Only for unemployment of the less-skilled, a significant … impact of superior vertical intra-industry trade seems to exist. However, the link between unemployment of the lower …

cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In …The paper analyzes the labor market effects of globalization when foreign market entry is costly and risky. With … this situation, government unemployment benefits reduce the wages that exporting firm's need to pay workers as risk …

. We develop a model of task trade that allows for equilibrium unemployment. In this model, there are two margins of …-monotonic adjustment: Early stages of offshoring always lead to higher unemployment, while later stages may entail net job creation. We …

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect …

Based on a two-country model it is scrutinized how the structure of the unemployment benefit system affects the … consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …