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Protecting against labour market risk : employment protection or unemployment benefits?
Boeri, Tito (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776085
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Employment protection and product market regulation
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001799644
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Temporary jobs, employment protection and labor market performance
Cahuc, Pierre; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2001
Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems somewhat contradictory since the former primarily aims at limiting job destruction whereas the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391776
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The political economy of job protection and income redistribution
Amable, Bruno (contributor); Gatti, Donatella (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002485621
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Preferences for collective versus individualised wage setting
Boeri, Tito (contributor); Burda, Michael C. (contributor) - 2008
Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may adopt either individualized or collective wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656922
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Life-cycle equilibrium unemployment
Chéron, Arnaud (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age and a hump-shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748465
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Preferences for employment protection and the insider-outsider divide
Guillaud, Elvire; Marx, Paul - 2013
Insider-outsider theory suggests that in dual labour markets two groups have opposing preferences regarding protection … market policies. Going beyond insider-outsider theory, we argue and show empirically that the effect of membership in either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793094
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Can insider power affect employment?
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411604
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The insider-outsider theory : a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412195
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Wage determination and the sources of bargaining power
Manzini, Paola; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
the bargaining process itself. This approach leads to a new theory of wage determination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412236