2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

-firm wage differentials by differences in labour productivity and job turnover. More precisely, our model predicts that the … lower unemployment risks within their firm. In our model, wages are set to maximize a Nash bargain criterion, and according …

We argue that the efficiency of the Danish flexicurity Model, which combines high unemployment benefits with low job … citizens raises moral hazard issues which hinder the implementation of efficient public unemployment insurance. …

matching model of a rigid labour market including firing costs, temporary jobs and a minimum wage in order to analyse this …The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the US unemployment benefit system. In most states …, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require …

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross …. This paper argues that family labour supply interactions and cross-country heterogeneity in family culture are key for … explaining these stylized facts. First we provide a simple labour supply model in which heterogeneity in family preferences can …

lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …