collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related … between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining agreement or firm-level contract and employment growth of about one … percentage point per annum. However, the correlation between employment growth and collective bargaining is not robust to the use …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. -- Employment ; trade union …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …

utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages …Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union … and increase employment. This raises the question as to how the benefit structure is determined in the political process …

neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the employment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment …In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to … compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by …

In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However … reduces employment. Thus, the prevalent form of severance payments in OECD countries might have less advantageous employment … effects than previously conjectured. -- earnings relationship ; efficiency wages ; employment ; severance pay …

economic incidence if unemployment compensation is subject to social security contributions. Since this is the case in numerous … of social security contributions on wages and employment. …