This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …

various performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that … high taxes increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter …

, results in welfare losses for at least a segment of the population, after a capital tax cut and a concurrent labour tax …

Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity … model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is not automatically among them since the basic flexicurity properties … were also in place during the 1970s and 1980s where high and persistent unemployment was prevalent. Labour market …

pt. 1. Labour market mobility and in-work transitions -- pt. 2. 'Scarring' effects of unemployment and non …

Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) are not preserved in the presence of unemployment. In the present paper we challenge this view … and investigate capital tax competition for some arbitrary institutional setting of the labor market. We find that if the … labor market is characterized by some efficient bargaining solution, the results of Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) are …

Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging …, David Canning, Michael Moore, Younghwan Song -- Modeling the effects of population aging on consumption in the presence of … -- Population aging and health care spending in Japan : public- and private-sector responses / Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason, Maliki …

population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …