`marriage squeeze', a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women.As a result, dowry … payments rise in order to clear the marriage market.The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do not re-enter the … marriage market.This paper demonstrates that the marriage squeeze argument cannot explain dowry inflation in a proper dynamic …

Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …

centralization of wage bargaining and of the interaction between those institutional variables, on real wages, unemployment and … decrease in the number of unions) triggers two opposite effects on real wages, unemployment and inflation. It reduces the … competition effect" raises real wages, unemployment and in°ation. But the decrease in the number of unions also strengthens the …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …

wage tax such that the marginal tax wedge remains unaffected|increases employment, reduces the equilibrium unemployment … of replacing employment taxes by payroll taxes increases employment and reduces the equilibrium unemployment rate, while …

greater the productivity gap from the leader country, but differences in unemployment benefit systems can lead to relative … social welfare benefits generate high unemployment and reduce the amount of labour employed for R&D purposes. Furthermore, it …

This paper investigates the impact of individual asset holdings on the probability of leaving unemployment. According … to the theory, higher levels of financial wealth will result in higher reservation wages and longer unemployment … out of unemployment. In particular, negative levels of wealth increase significantly the hazard of leaving unemployment …