workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …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 …

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 …

questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual …

wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net … demand shocks for young workers, as well as white-collar workers. …

workweek from 40 to 39 hours. At the same time, it mandated stable monthly earnings for minimum wage workers and recommended … the stabilization of monthly earnings for other workers (recommendations followed by 90% of the firms). We show that … workers directly affected by these changes - those working 40 hours in March 1981 as well as those working overtime at the …

the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program …

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …. Immigration of selected workers may create gains in efficiency which also result in positive distributive effects, not only for …