recent contribution by Anwar Shaikh, who elaborated on the relation between unemployment and changes in income distribution … labor market slack (namely, the unemployment rate and the unemployment intensity, an index that incorporates the duration of … unemployment). We first extend Shaikh’s method of analysis to eight mature countries, and subsequently we approach the relationship …

not an issue that the usual unemployment rate deals with, though. Being unemployed one may not be able to gain access to … with these issues and improve on the usual unemployment measure. In this paper I develop a new measure of unemployment … unemployment across both households and individuals. With this class of measures characterized, I then show some empirical …

correlated with inflation. While existing studies of monetary policy and unemployment only consider consumer money, we build a … greatly amplifies the effect of monetary policy on unemployment, and that an increase in inflation reduces the firm money …

This study documents how job seekers update perceived job-finding prospects by unemployment duration and by learning … about aggregate unemployment. We find that job seekers perceive an 18% decline in their job-finding probability for each … additional month of unemployment, but perceive a higher job-finding probability when the aggregate unemployment rate is …

, Firmen und Arbeitnehmer, Rechnung tragen. Standardergebnisse traditioneller ökonomischer Theorie sind im Lichte … das Resultat der klassischen Arbeitsmarkttheorie, dass gewerkschaftliche Lohnbeeiflussung zu höherer Arbeitslosigkeit … führt, im Kontext der Suchtheorie valide ist. Auf dem Weg hin zu einer empirisch gültigen Theorie des Arbeitsmarktes stellt …

There has been much discussion of the relationships between crime, inequality and unemployment. We construct a model … interesting ways. For example, we show how the crime rate affects the unemployment rate and vice-versa; how the possibility of … with different levels of unemployment, inequality, and crime. The model can be used to study the equilibrium effects of …

Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment … crime data available from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 survey to determine if black men with criminal …. Conclusions: Lowering the disproportionate rate at which black men are incarcerated will not in itself eliminate the unemployment …

crime victimization. In particular, local unemployment rate is found to be one of the most important factor explaining … mobile across neighborhoods for more serious economic crimes, in line with the Beckerian theory of crime, but that petty …This paper explores the determinants of crime victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French …