We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in an exogenous growth model with unemployment …

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous … simulations of the model. -- TFP growth ; unemployment by age ; old workers' employment rate ; capitalization ; creative …

envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …