More than a decade ago Oswald has formulated the thesis that homeownership increases unemployment. Empirical research … seekers and commuting costs. We show that decreasing absolute risk aversion implies that the exit rate from unemployment is … new job elsewhere. However, in general for European countries, residential mobility associated with unemployment spells …

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … selection will bias downward the wage impact of commuting, and marginally affect the coefficients on education, age and gender … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … selection will bias downward the wage impact of commuting, and marginally affect the coefficients on education, age and gender … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …

The underlying data from which the U.S. unemployment rate, labor-force participation rate, and duration of unemployment … of the average duration of unemployment overstates by 50% the true duration of uninterrupted spells of unemployment and … reconciliation. We find that the usual statistics understate the unemployment rate and the labor-force participation rate by about …

More than a decade ago Oswald has formulated the thesis that homeownership increases unemployment. Empirical research … seekers and commuting costs. We show that decreasing absolute risk aversion implies that the exit rate from unemployment is … new job elsewhere. However, in general for European countries, residential mobility associated with unemployment spells …

More than a decade ago Oswald has formulated the thesis that homeownership increases unemployment. Empirical research … seekers and commuting costs. We show that decreasing absolute risk aversion implies that the exit rate from unemployment is … new job elsewhere. However, in general for European countries, residential mobility associated with unemployment spells …

women experience longer unemployment durations and comparable hourly wage losses. Displaced expectant mothers experience … female workers come through longer unemployment instead of higher losses in wages. …

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … selection will bias downward the wage impact of commuting, and marginally affect the coefficients on education, age and gender … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For … instance, we show that a higher connectivity among unemployed individuals reduces duration dependence and that exit rates … depend positively on the duration of the last job held by the unemployed worker …

of taxes and public goods has played a central role in the theory of local public finance over the past 50 years. Given …