full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … isolation. -- Flexicurity ; workfare ; firing costs ; employment ; unemployment …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …

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 …

full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firming in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

responses to each shock. Our analysis permits us to distinguish between the short- and longrun effects of the shocks. Different …