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 …

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

The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated … may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … effect on employment unless these policies stimulate labor productivity, the entry of firms, capital utilization or …

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 …

This paper derives and then estimates a model of employment where unions and firms bargain over wages and possibly … employment, and efficiency wage considerations may be important. It illustrates the difficulties involved in interpreting many … existing attempts to discriminate between alternative models. The results (based on over 200 UK firms) suggest that employment …

negotiations. Wage and employment decisions are assumed to be made before business conditions are known; thus these decisions … effectiveness of various government policies on production, employment, and pricing. Hysteresis is shown to be a special case in a …

unemployment: labour unions, supply shocks combined with real wage rigidity, and automation and trade combined with real wage … rigidity. The fourth and fifth sections deal with deficient demand and labour turnover costs as sources of unemployment. The …This paper provides a brief, non-technical survey of the major theories about why people remain unemployed. The aim is …

We argue that the 1970s were characterized by attempts to maintain a cooperative, low unemployment equilibrium in the …, explains the initial rise in unemployment. The reduction in union power also helps to explain the acceleration in productivity …

Germany. We establish that in the long run, high union membership levels coincide not only with a large labour force, but also … to workers. In the short run, union membership dynamics are mainly driven by changes in unemployment. In turn, changes in …