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 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 …

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 …

payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using …

costs. It is shown that even with flexible wages unemployment is higher among the low-skilled and increases with skill … skilled, increasing the inflow into unemployment, and that the jobs are less profitable, resulting in a smaller outflow from … unemployment. Firing costs increase employment security among existing jobs, but the unskilled are likely to profit less than the …

flexibility of formal legislation. The employment protection legislation seems not to have influenced the level of unemployment in …

addition of women or immigrants – does not increase unemployment as much as is predicted for current workers because demand for …