that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …

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 …

determinants. Particularly, privatization scales are sensitive to changes in economic prosperity, unemployment and inflation …

the husband finds a job. This is so despite the fact that greater own wealth also prolongs unemployment spells for men … effects on job finding ; unemployment duration …

the husband finds a job. This is so despite the fact that greater own wealth also prolongs unemployment spells for men …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …