This paper studies the impact of long-run productivity growth on job finding and separation rates, and thus the … unemployment rate, using a search and matching model. We incorporate disembodied technological progress and on-the-job search into … growth reduces unemployment by decreasing job separation and inducing job creation. The incorporation of on-the-job search …

We investigate whether and how the type of unemployment benefit institution affects productivity. We designed a field … experiment to compare workers' productivity under a welfare system, where the unemployed receive an unconditional monetary … transfer, with their productivity under a workfare system, where the transfer is received conditional on the unemployed …

productivity. Further, when our model is subjected to skill-upgrading and changes in employee bargaining power, it is capable of … employees’ relative productivity, i.e., skill-biased technological change, are unlikely to have caused the increase in income …