costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …

regression discontinuity design based on this exogenous change in unemployment status for this particular group of workers, we …

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …

In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to … compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by … neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the employment impact will depend on the nature of the 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 …

high severance payments are likely to decrease unemployment but systematically decrease welfare and raise inequality …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …