of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …

This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in a search model with heterogeneous … rate of unemployment. We distinguish between PMR related to entry costs and PMR that generates recurrent fixed costs. We … find that: (i) higher entry costs raise the rate of unemployment mainly through our novel selection effect, (ii) higher …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For … degree of competition in the goods market and the institutional setup of the unemployment compensation system. Furthermore …

because minimum wage increases unemployment, hence the marginal cost of redistribution is higher which gives a pretext for …

Models of the aggregate unemployment rate have traditionally been estimated from structural models of the labour market … or in a linear single-equation framework. However, theory as well as evidence suggest that the unemployment rate is … asymmetric and should be modelled in a non-linear framework. In this paper the unemployment rate in Australia is modelled as a …