Labour market flexibility continues to be one of the key issues in the reform of labour markets in welfare states. The …

legislation, structure of wage bargaining, taxation of labour, active labour market policies, the system of unemployment and …

, taxation of labour, active labour market policy, the system of unemployment and social benefits. All these aspects determine … on employment or unemployment. The second chapter is composed of the comparative analysis of selected criteria and … or Anglo-Saxon countries. The main problem of Visegrad group is long-term unemployment and its composition and a lower …

collective bargaining process. Afraid of social security loss, unions usually oppose the reform, while governments usually give … in to the union pressures and negative image of reform consequences created by unions and assisted by media. The … characteristics of the labour market and labour market reform with respect to bargaining among power groups are examined both …

central feature of the model is that firms can provide insurance against unemployment, by targeting a path of wages that … private markets. I find that unemployment benefits should be large and frontloaded. The government has the incentive to drive … productivity in every period and thus private risk sharing is crowded out. However, the drop in consumption in unemployment is …

This paper quantitatively investigates the scope for improving welfare by making aspects of the unemployment insurance …