This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …

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 …

people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced …

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 …

The paper elaborates on the employment intensity of growth. Previous evidence regarding this question is surveyed …. Empirical results concerning Europe and selected other industrial countries reveal that the cyclical link between unemployment … that the employment intensity of growth is influenced by the countryÂ’s wage setting process, the share of the service …