longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …

wage, unemployment, and non-employment structures between 1988 and 1998, when both unemployment and non-employment rates … moderation on average. Although there have also been virtually no changes in the unemployment structure, the relative non …

impact of the unemployment rate itself. This pattern holds across recent decades in the US data, and the relationship … strengthens in recent years when variation in participation increases. We also examine the impact of long-term unemployment on … wages and find it has no different effect from that of short-term unemployment. Our analysis provides strong empirical …

not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …

the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a …Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …