specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment … for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

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 …

in geographical mobility, unemployment and labour market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary effects of insurance on the performance of the labour market into consideration … labour mobility and increases, therefore, the fraction of attached agents and the political support for UI. The main result …

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a)improve employment and welfare, (b)do not raise earnings inequality …

reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labour market adjustment processes, (b) the …This Paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … interplay between these adjustment processes and the dynamic structure of labour market shocks, and (c) the interaction between …

heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these …

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 …