the one hand, lower reservation wages reduce unemployment duration, but on the other hand, agents have shorter spells of … active search and hence higher exit rate from unemployment into nonparticipation. The effect of these measures on total … employment is ambiguous in the model. Simulations show that there are cases when reduction of the unemployment benefits …

ofincidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both.Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekerswho come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to fouryears …With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates …

My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment … high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor market hinders workers from finding a suitable match. I focus on … the labor market prospects of low-skilled workers.In the first chapter, I develop a business cycle matching model with …

labor markets. It also demonstrates that a positive rate of unemployment can exist even in the absence of matching frictions …Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre …

, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …

of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment …

determined-duration contracts) which ease firing restrictions for some, but not all, workers. This paper discusses the effects of … EPL varying among workers of different skills on the level and composition of unemployment, job flows, productivity and …

herrschenden Arbeitslosigkeit im Hinblick auf die Ursachen und die Gründe ihrer Verfestigung und Persistenz.Dabei wird festgestellt …, dass die existierende Arbeitslosigkeit über verschiedene Theorien erklärt und in mehrere Bestandteile zerlegt werden kann …. Ein erheblicher Teil der Arbeitslosigkeit kann auf unflexible, überhöhte Reallöhne zurückgeführt werden. Unterschiedliche …

duration of post-unemployment job matches. On the other hand, an increase in skill mismatch in the aggregate production … Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem …