. Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … predictions of our simple model are consistent with the contrasting performance of the labour market in Europe and the United … States in terms of unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment; and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterized by economic …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity via a case study of Kenya. I … specifically examine whether jobs are being used by politicians as both reward and carrot to ensure ethnic allegiances. This is … the possibility of employment and the level of wages. I do this using data from the 1986 Labor Force Survey which due to …

This paper investigates the roles of manufacturing employment, neighborhood poverty, and family structure in … determining wages among Detroit, MI workers, just prior to the current economic crisis. Employment in manufacturing has been …. Regression analysis in this paper estimates employment in manufacturing raised wages 15.8% for all workers in the metropolitan …

, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …

employment. Studies using various methodologies and data are reviewed: natural experiments, time series, and cross … whole, immigration may have little effect on mean wages and probability of employment. However, there is some evidence that …

distribution of assets and consumption) and the goal of increasing the aggregate level of output and employment. …This essay presents a rigorous theory of involuntary unemployment in less developed countries based on the observation … that at low consumption levels a person's overall ability to work is impaired. The theory links the incidence of …

Before the early 1970s generous welfare states seemed to be consistent with high employment. Since then, there has been … response of redistributive states to these same market forces could have led to a considerable fall in employment. …