longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …

an individual employer-worker match is allowed, the impact of severance payments on unemployment duration and incidence …

and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage … bargaining and wage posting by firms. We use the framework to study the influence of alternative labor market institutions and … policies on wages and unemployment. …

This paper starts from the observation that despite their very high levels of unemployment, major European countries … have devoted few resources to reducing it. This suggests that there is little political concern about high unemployment. I …

This paper considers an equilibrium model of unemployment in a labour market where all vacancies are advertised in a … newspaper. Unemployment occurs in occupations that are short on vacancies. New vacancies are created by entrepreneurial search … unique rational expectations equilibrium is shown to exist. The unemployment-vacancy dynamics are consistent with so …

Theoretical predictions of the impact of TFP growth on unemployment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which … creative destruction effects by estimating the impact of TFP growth on unemployment in a panel of industrial countries. We find …-state dynamics of unemployment. Capitalization effects explain some of the estimated impact but a part remains unexplained. …

. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

leads to constantly rising unemployment and tax rates. The resulting crisis may trigger new insights into economic …