utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earningsrelationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages …Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence onprofits and trade union … and increase employment. Thisraises the question as to how the benefit structure is determined in the political process... …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future …

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an …-manufacturing wages and a 7.3% reduction in unemployment. …

economic incidence if unemployment compensation is subject to social security contributions. Since this is the case in numerous … of social security contributions on wages and employment. …

utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages …Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union … and increase employment. This raises the question as to how the benefit structure is determined in the political process …

We study employment, employee effort, wages and profit sharing when firms face stochastic revenue shocks and when base … bargaining power of the trade union and it has effort-enhancing and wage-moderating effects. We show that higher profit sharing … reduces equilibrium unemployment under circumstances with sufficiently ‘rigid’ labour market institutions, i.e. sufficiently …

can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining … that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment. …

and the impacts of labour tax progression on domestic wage setting and employment. The wage elasticity of domestic labour … employment and a negative effect on outsourcing. …

Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. A revenue-neutral increase in the wage tax progression will decrease the …

-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized …: changes in the wage tax rate, the tax exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same … burden per worker constant continues to be good for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of …