The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which …

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher … tax burden on labour income and a more generous unemployment insurance system increase, whereas a higher centralization of …

increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection … performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes …This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to …This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an … keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD countries for the period 1971 to 2002 that the strictness of …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms … of works councils. Second, on the basis of these estimates, we use the difference between predicted and actual employment …

peculiar situation, we build a theoretical model of the musicians’ labour market in which we embed the main institutional … sufficiently large unemployment benefit for musicians. We notice that the first step, while highly desirable, is unlikely to be …

The macroeconomic effects on growth, investment and private sector employment of different ways of rolling back the … capital stock and a fall in employment. Cutting public employment or the income tax rate leads, in contrast, to a lower wage …, a higher interest rate and a higher capital stock. Employment rises on impact. If the extra revenues of rolling back the …

generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …