implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the …

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We … analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …

unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases net wages and - for certain benefit-systems - unemployment benefits as well …We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without … reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …

should be exclusively targeted at unemployed workers with low initial exit rates to employment. For all other workers, they … measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …

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 … affect the well-established qualitative results of the impact labour tax reforms have: changes in the wage tax rate, the tax …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and … entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) and the less skilled to temporary jobs or unemployment …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

This paper compares the decentral organization of unemployment insurance in member states of a state union with the … between the states. Labor markets exhibit unemployment due to trade union's bargaining about the wage rate. In a decentral … scenario the states organize independently unemployment insurance and decide about the rate on wages contributed to the …