The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data … we investigate the impact of spatial mismatch on the unemployment rate of ethnic groups using the matching model proposed …

solved for simultaneously. We then decompose unemployment in two parts: the level reached if all agents were residing in the …

institutions (wage rigidity and employment protection) increased, but to a much lesser extent, the unemployment gap. … others suffer long periods of costly adjustment, typically high and persistent unemployment and temporary output losses. We … unemployment duration spells, relatively large wage penalties when changing jobs and higher likelihood of leaving activity for …

Labour market frictions are not the only possible source of high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by … determination of equilibrium unemployment in the presence of credit market frictions both with exogenous and endogenous wages. We …

, unemployment and capital accumulation. First, we recover the partial equilibrium over-employment phenomenon put to the fore by …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …