analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits …

moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …

by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one's quality of life: employment, earnings and …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

This paper studies the unemployment accelerator, a mechanism where workers directly affect the firms' financial … conditions, and, in turn, firms' financial conditions feedback again to the real economy. The unemployment accelerator builds on … in labor and financial markets. We provide compelling micro-evidence of the unemployment accelerator: a 10% increase in a …

. Second, we apply it to test for breaks in the unemployment rate in the US, the UK and Japan. Our results shed some light on … the empirical relevance of alternative unemployment theories for these countries. Specifically, a structuralist …

(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary … national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade … unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses …

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of … domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic …

employed friends on the transition from non-employment to employment, and we find the existence of significant network effects … points. This finding is robust to specifications that address the endogeneity of friends’ employment status, which may be … evidence of higher wages and employment stability for those with more employed friends, which is consistent with networks …