Unemployment Benefits II, do not benefit from a minimum wage at all. Comparing the effects of a minimum wage with different types …

taxation. In addition, the appearance of equilibrium unemployment also provides an incentive for the government to directly tax …

This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in … early 2000's both in quot;oldquot; and quot;newquot; EU member states. We estimate effects of labour market institutions on … various performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include … 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 …

lack of compensating differentials for unemployment risk can arise in equilibrium when all workers are identical and firms … differ only in job security (i.e. the probability that the worker is not sent into unemployment). In a setting where workers … risky tail of the distribution of firm-level unemployment risk. Meanwhile, unemployment becomes persistent for low-wage and …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …