will be associated with a higher incidence of temporary employment contracts and short-term jobs. …The model developed in this paper examines the relationship between firing costs and unemployment in a simple two …-period model with uncertainty. Where there are long-term employment relationships, and where risk-averse workers and risk …

and consumption go down as well. Governments can offset terror by putting tax revenues into the production of security …, at the level of the death toll by about the same size as due to car accidents, is expected to decrease annual consumption …

-level jobs and submitted a CV showing that the candidate had attended high school in Australia. We find economically and … jobs in order to receive the same number of interviews. These differences vary systematically across groups, with Italians …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …

This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting … bargaining over redundancy pay has no impact on recent employment variation for plants in the sample; and third, that financial …