relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

that all the shortrun fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …

This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of Innovation, endogenous growth, and unemployment in a disaggregated … economy. Unemployment is analyzed w ithin a dual labor market setting, where the labor market is consisting of a primary high … the economy's growth rate and the equilibrium unemployment rate. It can be shown in comparative static analyses, that the …

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to …

The unemployment rise in EU countries has been particularly strong for low-skilled workers. This observation has often … types of workers and with search unemployment. The model is calibrated and simulated to examine the interactions between the … observed unemployment changes. …

composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …