Anglo-Saxon countries have been relatively successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in … reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …

structural change, new firms and innovations and therefore possibly also nowadays for employment growth. …

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … should be supplemented by capital market imperfections for explaining differences in employment performances is supported by …

employment growth. Hence, the elimination of exchange rate volatility could be considered as a substitute for a removal of … employment protection legislation. …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …

firing costs and unemployment benefits are independent of redundancy pay, employment and welfare will rise with redundancy … shown that a fixed payment will lower wages, leave employment and welfare unaffected if there are no wage-dependent taxes …, no additional firing costs and if unemployment benefits are not altered by redundancy payments. If payroll taxes exceed …

More progressive income taxes raise employment in models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. However, this … progressive taxes reduce profits. This induces firms to exit the market such that the positive employment effect can vanish in a … opportunities raise the likelihood of positive employment effects due to higher tax progressivity. …

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …