. 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 …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

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

-level jobs and submitted a CV showing that the candidate had attended high school in Australia. We find economically and … jobs in order to receive the same number of interviews. These differences vary systematically across groups, with Italians …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … control for pre-inflow background and labour market characteristics. There is also a good degree of consistency across …