We develop a model of directed technological change, frictional unemployment and migration to examine the effects of a …, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce the relative unemployment rate of skilled workers and decrease the relative …

Throughout the world, strong dispersions of both regional and national unemployment rates can be observed. The economic … between size and unemployment. Using data from 37 countries, 15 continents and trade areas as well as 496 federal states, we … will demonstrate that larger economic regions tend to have higher unemployment rates. Subsequently, we show that this …

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as …, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are estimated for the pooled crosssection of 1991 and 1995, taking into … account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second step, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.62–0.70 across the …

commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment …-term estimate of Okun’s coefficient implying that the deviation in unemployment during the crisis resulted from a larger output gap … period utilized. Focusing more on short-term fluctuations, changes in unemployment are decomposed to identify the association …

Organization (ILO) datatabse on unemployment flows. On the basis of a matching model of the labor market, it analyses the economic …, institutional, and policy determinants of unemployment in- and out-flows. Against a set of basic controls, we present evidence … regarding the relationship between financial sector development and reforms and their impact on unemployment dynamics. Using …

between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

In this paper, we present two alternative models of trade and unemployment, in which unemployment is generated through … of trade policy, unemployment and a variety of controls, we find strong evidence for the Ricardian prediction that … unemployment and trade openness are negatively related (protection and unemployment are positively related). We do not find any …

We develop a model of directed technology adoption, frictional unemployment, and migration to examine the effects of a … function, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce both the relative unemployment rate and the relative emigration rate (brain …

unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model ….g. home bias). As a model of unemployment, a migration gravity approach uncovers hitherto under-appreciated interregional …