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 …

We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …

offset by widespread poverty and lack of unemployment insurance, leading to overall faster transitions in low income …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a … longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest that paternal unemployment makes children significantly more conscientious …

In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how … drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put …