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 …

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 …

envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …

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

signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a … are not recalled. In contrast, because workers whose plant closed cannot be recalled, longer unemployment for them should …

public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …