We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …

Unemployment swings have distributional consequences if some groups are hit harder than others. We examine if the … sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …

vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment from the market and training. Compared to Germany and Japan, the US … has both a higher inflow rate into unemployment and a higher efficiency of the matching process. While the combined effort …

immigrant workers. Using high quality administrative data for Germany, I first show that technological change is positively … been in Germany for less than 5 years, and that approximately one third of the decline in employment rates could be …

There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller … HILDA survey data to investigate the inter-related dynamics of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in …

This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we … from the employer side, we find evidence for a larger stigma effect of unemployment than overeducation. The stigma effect …