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... …

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles ofcounselling and monitoring … unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each otherleading to important caseworker heterogeneity: Some consider …

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment … offices in choosing appropriate active labour marketprogrammes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system … unemployed person... …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a …