investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper examines (i) whether the introduction of UISA affected … employment duration among formal private sector workers, and (ii) the magnitude of this effect. The analysis is performed on … leaving employment, or accelerated time to employment termination. The effect is larger for workers becoming unemployed or …

properties of employment and unemployment equilibrium. Second, it applies the model to the study of employment fluctuations and … unemployed workers from inactivity to production (the ‘job creation’ flow) and one for the flow of workers from employment to … flows are equal. The model is shown to explain well the employment fluctuations observed in the US economy, within the …

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

factors. The paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter …-cyclical policies introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent … Opportunity Tax Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on …

case of employer initiated job separations. According to the extensive literature on Employment Protection Legislation (EPL …

respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …'s employment protection system. Also, provisions should be made to allow for a higher degree of wage flexibility across …

This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting … bargaining over redundancy pay has no impact on recent employment variation for plants in the sample; and third, that financial …