possibilities single countries perceive in pursuing employment policies. In a setting where trade is driven by comparative … advantages, and thus wagecompetitiveness plays an important role for employment, it is shown that there is a tendency that a bias … arises in employmentpolicies. Policies expanding private employment tend to be used too little, while policies harming …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …

employment by 10 per cent within five years and to cut down unemployment by more than a fourth. This paper investigates what …

for full employment beyond the implications of NAIRU. The latter concept is actually misleading, because most economists … and commentators in the media equate it with "full employment". As a consequence, endemic and large scale un- and …