cost of capital for investments in jobs. Third, making shareholders the ultimate owner of the firm provides the best …

of capital for investments in jobs, which harms the position of job seekers, including new entrants to the labour market …

This Paper explores the optimal interaction between the tax system and unemployment compensation in insuring people … against the risks of involuntary unemployment and low ability. To that end, we introduce search unemployment in a model of … and the unemployment benefit) increases if, for efficient agents, the participation constraint (governing job search …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …

In order to explore the optimal taxation of low-skilled labour, we extend the standard model of optimal non …-linear income taxation in the presence of quasi-linear preferences in leisure by allowing for in-voluntary unemployment, job search …, an exogenous welfare benefit, and a non-utilitarian social welfare function. In trading of more low-skilled employment …

factor substitution between labour and polluting resources, a shift towards greener preferences boosts employment if labour … policy and involuntary unemployment are derived within a second-best framework in which lump-sum taxes and subsidies are not … available and labour supply is rationed due to a rigid consumer wage. In the absence of factor substitution more environmental …