of feed-in-tariffs and renewable portfolio standard policies showed that the former is good when a policy to develop … renewable energy sources with a low level of risk for investors is considered. However, the latter is an appropriate policy when … a market view policy is applied by the government …

unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase thevolume of … to investigate how demographicasymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …(1950-2010). We show that a policy reform in one country also has an impact on labormarkets in other countries when capital …

unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past … (1950-2010). We show that a policy reform in one country also has an impact on labor markets in other countries when capital …

This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and … unemployed. Their decisions over job-search are thus typically not optimal and hence the equilibrium unemployment rates are … changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages and net output …

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and … fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the … same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for skilled workers, as compared to an equilibrium where fairness …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non …

In-work benefits are becoming an increasingly relevant labour market policy, gradually expanding in scope and … of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …