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 …

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality …

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 …

lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important … become self-employed. In the second part of the paper we study the economic outcome of self-employment in 2002 for Swedish … self-employment and having employees in the firm. The estimations show that those who were wage earners in 1998 have higher …

correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …

will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an … insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in the presence of on-the-job training, increases boom …-time employment. Thus on-the-job training can make insider wage hikes less detrimental to average employment (over booms and …