The paper summarizes the principal empirical findings of the European Unemployment Program. It draws on 10 country studies which utilize the macroeconomic framework set out by Sneessens and Drèze (1986). The main conclusions are as follows: (i) a major problem in Europe is that productivity...

The words "moral hazard" are used here to denote situations where the decision-maker chooses simultaneously an "act" (as defined in the theory of games against nature, developed in particular by L.J. Savage) and an unobserved "strategy" susceptible of influencing the course of events. In applied...

A conceptual framework is provided by the "states of the world" approach (reviewed in section 1). The powerful normative analysis of individual decision-making under uncertainty extends the theory of consumer choice under certainty into an adequate specification of individual norms of behavior...