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 …

unskilled workers in the flexiwage economy and lower the unemployment in the minimum wage economy. This follows because … unemployment may be a source of competitive advantage due to the income effect. If the two countries differ only in terms of factor … endowments (but operate the same minimum wage) free trade moves the two countries towards an equalisation of unemployment …

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 …

employment remains constant. With a rigid wage rate, a rise in unemployment of unskilled labour follows. The model explains the …

The U.S. economy continues to be characterized by a persistently-high rate of unemployment, with at least another three … years before attainment of the pre-recession unemployment rate.Six significant structural trends are identified and their … force”. And the detrimental effect of long-term unemployment is a structural impediment to becoming well-positioned to …