can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real … rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds. …

can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time, i.e. we examines the determinants of employment and …

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 …

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 …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

underemployment. Furthermore, we examine the welfare implications of trade liberalization and find that under certain conditions the …

especially important early in the unemployment spell. Our results are robust across various specifications and for two …

” employment. As a consequence, endemic un- and underemployment is accepted as an inevitable attribute of the labor market. This is …The “natural” in the natural rate of unemployment is a misnomer, insofar as unemployment does not occur in nature. The … creative restructuring of that market our aim should be bring the underemployment rate down to 1.2%, the rate that obtained in …

findings suggest that the gain to employment in permanent jobs is higher for those with less experience in the domestic labor …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …