random assignment of job seekers to caseworkers. We find that the duration of un- and non-employment both decrease by 3% if … small negative effects on job stability, reducing the duration of re-employment spells by 0.3% per required application. We … find a zero effect on re-employment wages …

wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. …

symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce … their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme that only rewards employment expansion. This changes the incidence … employment and welfare. For moderate subsidy rates, all unions prefer to restrain their wage claims. At sufficiently high subsidy …

unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on … low skilled employment, provided that fiscal redistribution is not too intense and the elasticity between high and low …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country's exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …

In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases …