Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates … are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since …

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 …

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 …

-out of labour exchange functions (public employment agencies), and strong sanctions for non-compliance with ‘activation …

outside of our sample of large cities. Floods are found to be associated with faster growth of the population in the city, and …

estimated employment effect of skills tends to be more pronounced in countries with higher unemployment … skills on employment in 32 countries. On average, a one-standard-deviation increase in numeracy skills is associated with an … controlling for numeracy skills, the estimated employment effect of years spent in education falls by one-third from 2 …

leading country involved in services offshoring, and on India, the primary beneficiary of this process. The paper traces the …

affects earnings and educational success. But, most strikingly, it affects employment and physical health. In advanced …