We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …

propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …

-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in … toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men …

In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the … situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor …-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment rate of immigrants would lie at 5.6 percentagepoints for zero native unemployment (the …

high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … characterized by search frictions and skill complementarities in production can replicate these regularities. We estimate the model … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …

-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in … toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men …

wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …