people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced …

, or of central bank conservativeness are associated with lower unemployment and inflation. However the forward shifting of … by governments concerned with the costs of inflation and unemployment, as well as with redistribution to particular … changes in either labour taxes or in unemployment benefits to labours costs is larger the higher are those institutional …

In terms of output decline and increase in unemployment, the economic recession in Latvia that started during the 2008 …-09 financial crisis was one of the most severe in the world. Using both decomposition of the unemployment rate into structural and … cyclical components and Mortensen and Pissarides’ search and matching approach, we demonstrate that the changes in unemployment …

This paper studies, in a model with unemployment, how labour market status affects the preferences for public spending … powerful than the unemployed, and negative persistence if the unemployed are marginally more powerful. Under a uniform … distribution of tastes for the public good, there is no persistence. The preferences of the unemployed may be non-single-peaked, so …

natural rate of unemployment. In addition, because of differential inflation across countries, real exchange rates become …

percent of GDP generates output and unemployment multipliers respectively of about 1.2 per cent (at one year) and 0 ….6 percentage points (at the peak). Each percentage point increase in GDP produces an increase in employment of about 1.3 million … jobs. Total hours, employment and the job finding probability all rise, whereas the separation rate falls. A standard …

unemployment insurance on labour supply. A review of the evidence leads us to stress the importance of non-market clearing as the … framework of wage setting. Finally, the issue of structural unemployment is addressed and we conclude that structural change and … labour immobility were not such an important cause of interwar unemployment as is sometimes thought. …

This paper discusses how employment vouchers should depend on age in a simple overlapping generations model in which …

), and the consequent relaxation of firms’ financial constraints, for firm-level long term employment decisions. We find that … concerns, we use a novel dataset of private firms and compare employment growth of IPO firms with two different control groups … experience higher employment growth in the post-IPO period relative to each control group. Importantly, our results show that the …