on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

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 … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

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 …

optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

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 … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the … balances in these accounts would then be available to them during periods of unemployment. The government would be able to …

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 …

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 …