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 … their workforce when trade unions raise wages. This tames the unions, which causes wage moderation and raises aggregate …

affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment - depending on the subsidies' incidence - and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income … distribution than statutory minimum wages. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy, similar to the French minimum wage system …

We study the impact of tax policy on wage negotiations, workers' effort, employment, output and welfare when workers … literature that a revenue-neutral increase in the degree of tax progression is good for employment does not carry over to the … increases employment and output, we cannot rule out negative effects from an increase in tax progression when tax progression is …

elaborates the possibilities of an employment dividend of climate policies and shows the potential importance of such a second … and thus leave them with the option on a second dividend. -- Climate policy ; double-dividend hypothesis ; employment …

In this paper, we attempt to renew the interest in marginal employment subsidies. Such subsidies are paid only for a … firm's additional employment exceeding some reference level and create larger employment stimuli at lower fiscal costs than … marginal subsidization), the replacement of regular paid workers by outsourcing employment to newly established firms - a …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits …

heterogeneous labour and full information. -- Minimum wages ; unemployment ; hidden information ; labour market regulation …

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcingactivities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …