unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …

Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard searchmodels of the labor market, all … positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this outcome through related capital and labor mobilitypatterns... …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a …