on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

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 … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

insiders to firing restrictions does not necessarily worsen unemployment. In fact, it may be the willingness of a majority of … unemployment and deteriorates efficiency. Moreover, we argue, that the concentration of firm ownership is likely to influence labor …

optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

increase both youth and old age unemployment. This happens because unions react strategically, and respond to higher firing … participate in the labour market both when young and old. Each generation of workers is represented by its own union. Unions set … unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs …

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

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

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 … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …