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 …

Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation plays an important role for labor market success. We conducted a … randomized natural field experiment embedded in an existing labor market reactivation program to examine the effect of a self …. Second, there is no overall treatment effect on (short-term) labor market reintegration, but heterogeneous effects with …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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 …

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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 …

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

labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group … time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … children and on the hourly wage rates of both partners. (5) The labor supply curve is forward bending for both male and female …

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population …, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the … external validity of experiments with student participants. Behavior in the student population offers bounds on behaviors in …