impeding labor mobility across space affect the joint allocation of labor across firms and regions. Bringing the model to …

Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …

global financial markets enables capital owners to invest abroad, thereby fostering unemployment at the extensive industry … margin. Whether a country benefits from FDI in terms of unemployment depends on the respective country's net-FDI, measured as … the difference between in- and outward FDI. The derived FDI and unemployment nexus is tested employing macroeconomic data …

facilitates the analysis of skill-specific institutional changes. A government can influence wages and unemployment of the low … at home and abroad irrespective of their level of skill. -- FDI ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market …

In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the unemployment dynamics generated by different structural … shocks. We show that the relative contribution of the job finding and separation rates to the unemployment dynamics depends … contribution of the two transition rates to the volatility of unemployment, whereas the search shock implies a disproportionate …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply … dynamic optimization theory. We develop a general framework for the labor market where the search for a job involves dynamic …

convergence. This paper takes the view that falling moving costs, combined with greatly improved information about locations …