This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

I study the role of company start-up costs for employment performance. The model is search equilibrium with a new … jointly determined. Higher start-up costs reduce overall employment but increase the size of incumbent firms. I discuss some …

analyze the effect of changes in the macro economic variables on the wage contract and the unemployment rate. We find that … private information may increase the responsiveness of the unemployment rate to changes in productivity. The incentive power … of the wage contracts is positively related to high productivity, low unemployment benefits and high search frictions. …

unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This … fixed-term contracts are cheaper. This generates an externality, which can make employment higher in the system with only … the renewal rate of fixed-term contracts into permanent contracts lead to higher employment levels. Finally, the model …

finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is …-dimensional process. Age ten conduct disorder predicts male adult unemployment particularly well but it is self-esteem that predicts male …

We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six … years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school-leaving age to …

, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …