We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our … single-sector perspective pays special attention to the role of income effects and shows that bad institutions in one country …