workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates …

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with human capital framework and …

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self …-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the … potential gains from either type of employment; the second takes into account that the determinants of the migration decision …

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality … employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied … market shortages. The road to full employment is embedded in a landscape with less income inequality and more "greening" of …

centralized bargaining inhibits firms from using wages to induce workers to learn how to use their experience from one set of …