and GDP per capita, (ii) differences in employment and hours worked (per capita and per worker), (iii) differences in the … lower are GDP per capita, employment, part-time work and hours worked, but the higher is GDP per hour. In addition, it … hour and lower GDP per capita, employment and part-time work than a country with less rigidity and a lower level of …

process matching firms to unemployed workers, and the implications of these distortions for monetary policy. To this end, we …

disadvantaged male youths on their labour market transitions. The richness of the data at our disposal allows us to recreate very … educated males who participate in welfare training programs do worse on the labour market than those who do not participate. On … the other hand, participation in unemployment training programs provides them some benefits. In general, we find that …

Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods … difficult. To make things worse, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment matter when … unemployment insurance programs with a single metric. We build a first model with such complex characteristics. Our model features …

employment. We then design two different policies: an unemployment insurance program and a universal basic income system. We show …

than a university diploma, on the labour market and social outcomes of the 24- to 26-year-old Canadians found in the fourth …

-averse adult facing possible unemployment may be insured by a less risk-averse elder. Similarly, a risk-averse elder may purchase …. When unemployment insurance contracts are expensive to enforce, families do not exist if the adult is weakly risk …-averse and unemployment risk is too high or too low This `family switching' property is internalized by the landlord, such that …

mobile firms. Firms create jobs where they locate, but there is frictional unemployment. Two sorts of agglomeration effects …

employment, poverty and inequality. To evaluate impacts on poverty and inequality, we use a CGE Top Down approach. The paper … analyses two scenarios; the first one deals with the impact of affirmative action on skilled jobs. The second scenario adds to … unemployment as well as a fall of poverty for each population groups. …

Monetary Union)countries, with a special emphasis on the labour market structure. The implementation of the customs union … openness raises concerns in these countries as regards its potential impact on welfare, production and employment. In this … study, in contrast to many other papers, we relax the assumption of a perfect functioning of the labour market. We consider …