account for the empirical relation between the job-finding rate and the vacancy-unemployment ratio, provided that search costs … ; unemployment …

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and … fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the … same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for skilled workers, as compared to an equilibrium where fairness …

labor markets. Upon a neutral shock, total unemployment decrease is two-staged: firstly with a reduction in unskilled … unemployment, and then due to a sharp decline of skilled unemployment when skill substitution dominates. A higher elasticity of …-specific unemployment ; human capital investment ; idiosyncratic shock ; skill substitution ; search and matching …

global financial markets enables capital owners to invest abroad, thereby fostering unemployment at the extensive industry … margin. Whether a country benefits from FDI in terms of unemployment depends on the respective country's net-FDI, measured as … the difference between in- and outward FDI. The derived FDI and unemployment nexus is tested employing macroeconomic data …

facilitates the analysis of skill-specific institutional changes. A government can influence wages and unemployment of the low … at home and abroad irrespective of their level of skill. -- FDI ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market …

sectoral employment, unemployment and wage inequality. OJS generates wage dispersion and it leads to a reallocation of workers … increase of unemployment. The dynamics of labor market variables is obtained in closed form. The model predicts overshooting at …

In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the unemployment dynamics generated by different structural … shocks. We show that the relative contribution of the job finding and separation rates to the unemployment dynamics depends … contribution of the two transition rates to the volatility of unemployment, whereas the search shock implies a disproportionate …

In this work the precision and stability of the forecasts of Chile's unemployment rates are analyzed. Said models were … the signs of persistence that the unemployment indicator shows in its behavior; nevertheless, starting from the estimation … obtained, which empirically upholds the proposal of addressing the unemployment rate as a non stationary series. The evaluation …