The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemployment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (longterm) unemployment significantly increases …

high severance payments are likely to decrease unemployment but systematically decrease welfare and raise inequality …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

insiders to firing restrictions does not necessarily worsen unemployment. In fact, it may be the willingness of a majority of … unemployment and deteriorates efficiency. Moreover, we argue, that the concentration of firm ownership is likely to influence labor …

, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier …

. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these …