indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …

unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity … program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … matching models and discuss the policy implications of our results for the EUC extensions in the US …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …