We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search …

existing low-skilled immigrants to the labor market counteract the effect that is triggered by an increase in low …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women … differentials ; discrimination ; search models ; maximum likelihood estimation ; structural estimation ; affirmative action …

differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …

spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …

unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …

-to-job mobility seen in the data. Regardless of the mechanism, the estimated models show that frictional wage growth accounts for …