. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates …. For prime age workers employment rates were also affected but for older workers the Great Recession did not have a large …

This paper proposes a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which the government-consumption multiplier …, that labor supply is convex in a labor market tightness-employment diagram. In the model, as government consumption … increases, public employment rises, stimulating labor demand. Equilibrium tightness increases, which reduces private employment …

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 … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a …

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. …

. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … employment of low earners can explain 80% of the rise in relative female wages. There is no evidence that reduction in child care …