-Japan bilateral agreements on unemployment, income distribution and poverty. The results indicate contraction in agriculture but … industry. Unemployment in agriculture deteriorates while in industry improves. Thus income inequality worsens. However, poverty …

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

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 …

Agreement dismantling on unemployment in Tunisia. The specification of intertemporal behavior of households and firms permits … of efficiency wages, the model allows for an endogenous determination of unemployment. The main findings are that … unemployment and wage inequality will increase due to the MFA phase out, and that a deeper integration with the EU can soften the …

The paper addresses and summarizes the role of unemployment in the transformation process from an economic system with … explanations why unemployment is high during transition in countries of Central and Eastern Europe the role of unemployment and the … fiscal problems due to unemployment is discussed within a model of economies of transition. The model highlights the …

unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …

In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business … employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …

The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this … note establishes that the selection and matching procedures can be implemented using propensity scores fit on choice …

result is inconsistent with empirical observations. In this paper, we develop a matching model to address this inconsistency … matching model is numerically applied to the inland navigation shipping market in the Rhine river area in Western-Europe. We …