today, unemployment has become a major problem in national level as well as in yazd province. the presence of high unemployment has caused considerable amount of wastage of active human resources of the society which otherwise could have been used in various prosperous activities. as a result this situation may lead to poverty, corruption, unequal income distribution and other negative conseque...

The paper explores the link between inter-industry wage di¤erences for identical workers and job ‡ows, in particular job destruction rates. I ...nd that, in the manufacturing sector, the two are negatively correlated across 2-digit SIC industries, a fact that most labor market theories fail to explain. A stochastic equilibrium model with endogenous job reallocation and search in the labor marke...

We use a newly developed panel data set for Venezuela in the period between 1994 and 2002 to analyze three basic questions. The first relates to the influence of personal characteristics and previous labor market experience in the choice of different search methods. The second question addresses the effectiveness of different search methods in moving out of unemployment, controlling for persona...

In models of search on the job (e.g. Kenneth Burdett and Dale Mortensen 1998, Burdett and Melvyn Coles 2003, Alain Delacroix and Shouyong Shi 2006), employed and unemployed workers search the labor market for job openings. Workers who are unemployed are willing to accept any job that makes them better off than enjoying leisure and continuing to search. Workers who are employed are willing to ac...

The aim was to explore long-term changes in the perception of job characteristics--based on the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ)--in view of the changing labor market in Western societies. A total number of 2,821 workers from nine companies were involved in the longitudinal Belstress-project. Data were gathered on two occasions with a mean time interval of 6.6 yr. At both times, participants com...

I examine changes in the incidence and consequences of job loss between 1981 and 1999 using data from the DisplacedWorkers Surveys (DWS) from 1984-2000. The overall rate of job loss has a strong counter-cyclical component, but the job loss rate was higher than might have been expected during the mid-1990's given the strong labor market during that period. While the job loss rate of more-educate...