We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … employment is largely offset by large crowd-out effects. However, because new firms are more productive, the reform has the …

structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs …

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then …In this paper, the added worker effect is interpreted as a response to uncertain returns to labour supply offers by … members of a household. A model of household labour supply is developed In which each member's current labour force status …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … largely above its pre-recession level. We find two main explanations for these differences. First, the large employment swings …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …

This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every … jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the … law suggests that less employment protection would enhance welfare. The review has three parts. The first part discusses …

By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering … this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data … and find that they increased the unemployment rate by at most 0.3 percentage point …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …