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... …

This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two … employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate …

laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection … or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce registered sector employment and output. These laws do no seem to … as textiles, are the hardest hit by amendments that increase employment protection while capital-intensive industries are …

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