This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment … home-state unemployment rate. Comparing these estimates to realized losses in post-service civilian earnings resulting from … exiting the military during times of high unemployment suggests that mitigating factors (e.g., leisure, private and public …

with the unemployment rate. It also predicts that the share of newly created jobs fulfilled by current inhabitants of a … city increases with the unemployment rate. I test this model with data from the United States census between 1980 and 2000 … city with 3.7% unemployment the average local employment multiplier is 0.91 for current inhabitants and 0.60 for migrants …

, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States is 'tight' because unemployment rates are low. They …, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …