In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

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

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

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 …

This paper studies the impact of a selective extension of unemployment benefit duration on the incidence of … unemployment in Austria. As the new law applies only to elderly workers in certain regions of the country after June 1988, a quasi …-experimental situation is created. Unemployment entry is found to rise by between four and eleven percentage points due to the new law. The …

reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

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 …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after … exogenous lay-offs and, using Austrian administrative data, we find that younger workers are, in fact, unemployed longer if they …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel … take a closer look at the impact this trade growth has had on the Austrian labour market. To differentiate as far as … of individual workers in Austrian industry. The results show rather small employment effects, the impact on wage growth …

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 …