Social experiments conducted in Pennsylvania and Washington tested the effect of offering Unemployment Insurance (UI …

We investigate the design of an optimal Unemployment Insurance program using an equilibrium search and matching model …

Targeting reemployment bonus offers to unemployment insurance (UI) claimants identified as most likely to exhaust …

Differences in regional unemployment rates are often used to describe regional economic inequality. This paper asks … whether changes in regional unemployment differences in West Germany are persistent over time. Only if such changes are … dispersion of unemployment rates. Our analysis follows a time-series approach to economic convergence and we test whether …

closed economy, this paper concludes that, with the expansion of capital stock both the unemployment rate and the absolute … amount of unemployment will decrease. In an open economy, this paper sets up an asymmetric model, of which only one region … has fixed wage rate. It will help us to investigate how the trading cost would affect the unemployment and output of the …

Spanish unemployment, focusing on demonstrating its long memory and generating macro-economic models with autoregressive … vectors in which the unemployment variable is presumed to be non-stationary and co-integrated. Its consideration in this … suppose, the same as Skalin and Teräsvirta (2002), a behaviour for unemployment which is locally non-stationary in a globally …

A number of authors have recently emphasized that the conventional model of unemployment dynamics due to Mortensen and … Pissarides has difficulty accounting for the relatively volatile behavior of labor market activity over the business cycle. We … process. We then show that a reasonable calibration of the model can account well for the cyclical behavior of wages and labor …