The working paper Promoting youth employment through activation strategies provides an overview of the main features of … the youth employment challenge. It provides an overview of the main features of these strategies and attempts to conduct a …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future …

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an …-manufacturing wages and a 7.3% reduction in unemployment. …

Severance pay is a vital part of employment protection legislation (EPL). We investigate the incidence and level of … severance pay for dismissed employees. Our theoretical model predicts that not only the law and its interpretation by labour …' costs resulting from a suit and the legal determinants of such transfers affect the incidence of severance payments. In …

bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo …-wide bargaining agreement or firmlevel contract and employment growth per annum of about 0.8 percentage points. Using various … constant a variable entity. We use linked-employer- employee data for Germany and analyse the effect of collective bargaining …

bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo …-wide bargaining agreement or firmlevel contract and employment growth per annum of about 0.8 percentage points. Using various … constant a variable entity. We use linked-employer-employee data for Germany and analyse the effect of collective bargaining …

decades moving from a situation of low employment and limited labour market inequality to higher employment, but also more … inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … explained? The paper claims that changes in labour market institutions such as unemployment benefits, active labour market …