security system in an economy with unemployment caused by trade unions. Using a simple two-period overlapping generations …

unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and higher labor force participation imply higher incomes and less … consumer demand toward unskill-intensive goods. Relative demand for unskilled labor rises and unemployment falls. Finally, we …

The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is …

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

einer geringen Qualifikation behindert und zum Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit beigetragen. … impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. …

macroeconomic factors - including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system - as well as … individual-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset … for workers who move from unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German …

macroeconomic factors - including aggregate and local unemployment rates, generosity of the unemployment compensation system and … capital, length of unemployment spell and alternative income sources. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset (the German Socio … wage offers for workers who make the transition from unemployment to employment. The findings have important policy …

suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest … disaggregation level), whereas the share of mismatch unemployment (across industries and occupations) within total unemployment …