future developments of the Dutch economy, and surveys the political-economic debate in the Netherlands. The focus is on the …

development of the Dutch economy pinpointed and the political-economic debate in the Netherlands surveyed. Ten rules for sound …

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

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. …

This Paper studies the impact of local economic structure on local sectoral employment growth. Local employment growth … to 36 manufacturing, trade and service sectors and 341 French ‘Employment Areas’ in every year between 1984 and 1993 …

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …