15. What is Frictional Unemployment? What causes it? (Discuss
job search, match of
workers skills and benefits, sectoral shifts, unemployment
insurance)
16. What is a structural unemployment? What causes it? (Discuss
minimum wage laws,
unions, efficiency wages)
This question will ask you about the sequential search theory of
unemployment.
a) What is the reservation wage?
b) What does sequential search theory predict about its behavior
over the unemployment spell?
c) In the data, reservation wages typically decline over the
unemployment spell. Provide 3 possible reasons why this might be
the case.
d) Are declining reservation wages consistent or inconsistent
with negative duration dependence?
e) How might you reconcile the empirical regularities of (i)
declining reservation wages and...
macroeconomics
explain how unemployment insurance, the cost of the job search,
and the average of acceptable job offers affects the reservation
wage – for each, what happens to the reservation wage when there is
a change in the other variable. Explain each mathematically and
intuitively.
The method of financing unemployment insurance benefits tends
to
increase the length of job search.
increase frictional unemployment.
create an incentive for firms to prefer layoffs to wage
cuts.
both a and b.
Seasonal unemployment can be considered voluntary unemployment
because
it is caused by wages being inflexible downward.
to attract workers to industries with well-known seasonal
fluctuations in demand, employers may have to pay workers a
compensating differential
workers are covered by unemployment insurance.
all of these
Which of...
Discuss the differences between two theories of wage stickiness:
the efficiency wage theory and the misperceptions theory. (maybe
try to include some graph if there should be) - College level
answer would be better