This Paper explores the influence of on-the-job training on the employment effect of firing costs. It shows that on …-the-job training (generating firm specific skills) causes firing costs to have a contractionary influence on average employment (over …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study … the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for small firms with less than eleven employees to exempt two workers from …

The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their … unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment … policy would be costless to the government since the cost of the employment vouchers is set equal to the amount saved on …

This paper explores the optimal design of subsidies for hiring unemployed workers (‘employment vouchers’ for short) in … vouchers on employment and unemployment, the analysis shows how the optimal policy depends on the rates of hiring and firing …

The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a portion of their … incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The analysis indicates that introducing this … policy could increase employment, raise the incomes of incapacity benefit recipients, and reduce employers’ labour costs. …

opportunity to use part of their unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. The vouchers …

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

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the … United States with the launch of a reduced hours campaign by the AFL-CIO. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, I … find that increased overtime or reduced short time was little used to offset the reduction in standard hours: a one …