collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and … active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central Europe follow more interventionist policies than Canada, the UK and the … entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) and the less skilled to temporary jobs or unemployment …

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 …

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 …

unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies …

exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …