Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating … income and employment may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies … stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training …

contributes to creating competitive economic structures, employment and growth or whether it just fosters an exaggerated capital …

incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating employment, incentives for seeking and keeping a job, incentives for …