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 …

unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the private and public sectors, and on the distributions of wages in the …We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment …

The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the …

the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program …

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …. Immigration of selected workers may create gains in efficiency which also result in positive distributive effects, not only for …

public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a … outgrowth of the competitive game of federal politics, in which regional governors use public sector workers as ?hostages? to …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net … demand shocks for young workers, as well as white-collar workers. …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the …