employment protection legislation can raise employment, productivity and welfare. The model also predicts a U-shaped relation … between firing costs and unemployment. Finally, it gives a rationale for the observation that more educated workers tend to … have better protected jobs. …

reduction in employment. We find weak evidence that establishments in industries with greater reductions in effective rate of … assistance are more likely to exit, strong evidence that they reduce employment, and no evidence for economies of scale through …

this class of models, payments to the unemployed in each country. The model is used to evaluate the impact of migration in … scenarios involving three types of workers: skilled, unskilled, and unemployed. Full migration is the only scenario in which the … central country obtains an increase in both skilled and unskilled wages and employment levels. The obverse is true for the two …

This paper shows the results from a study of the impact of sectorial economic growth on unemployment in Mexico for 1996 …-2001, by applying a disaggregate approach on data from the National Employment Survey (Encuesta Nacional de Empleo). The paper …), as well as of the relationship between production and employment and the working of labor markets, but also describes the …

without it. We show that wage inertia affects the long run employment rate and that the transitional dynamics of the main …