In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on … profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model … implications. Specifically, a minimum wage policy could, in contrast to an employment subsidy, cause working conditions to …

This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian …, output, quasi-fixed capital stock and technology. The empirical results show that in the long run, employment demand responds … greatest to value-added, followed by capital stock changes, and least by wages. The speed of adjustment in employment and the …

In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However … employment effects if effort can be varied continuously. A substitution of the earnings-related for the lump-sum component … reduces employment. Thus, the prevalent form of severance payments in OECD countries might have less advantageous employment …

. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1½ and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …

evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …

This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity …

and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties. …