The aim of this article is to analyse critically the definition of involuntary unemployment offered by Lindbeck and … Snower in their insider-outsider model. Their category of involuntary unemployment will be shown to be broader than that of … unemployment. Hence, with their definitional stance, it is possible to have employed involuntary unemployed agents . The underlying …

income is stronger, and that its level should be higher. the higher the level of unemployment or job scarcity. Point of … equivalent. The equivalence is that the price of Labour Rights and the unemployment benefit corresponds to the income tax rate …. This analysis provides an argument against cutting unemployment and social assistance benefits during economic downturns …

In this paper, we investigate what causes the aggregate exit rate out of unemployment estimated in Wallonia (Belgium … Minimum Chi-Squares on quarterly data of male workers entering unemployment between June 1989 and February 1994. We find that … according to unemployment duration in their recruitment decision. Changes in the composition of workers entering unemployment …

In this paper, we invesitgate whether the diverging evolution of unemployment in the two main regions of Belgium …, Flanders and Wallonia, is driven by different evolutions in their average unemployment duration and/or their unemployment … unemployment stock in Flanders and Wallonia into an incidence effect and the duration effect estimated in the first stage. We base …

them after. In these setups, we comprehensively study the relations between technical progress, unemployment, and job …

that reason, a policy increasing the social capital of the disadvantaged workers can increase the unemployment rate and …