High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … capital flows, because of stronger employment adjustments in comparison with a competitive economy. We next exploit the model … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …

Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …

Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden. …

feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …