<titre traitementparticulier="non">Abstract</titre> This article examine the theoretical meaning of the elasticity of hours to wages accounting for Labour demand in an on-the-job equilibrium search model framework. A firm posts part and full-time job offers as a result of the trade-off between its demand variability, its wage costs and...

We develop a simple model featuring search frictions and a nondegenerate labor supply decision along the extensive margin. The model is a standard version of the neoclassical growth model with indivisible labor with idiosyncratic shocks and frictions characterized by employment loss and...

Before the recent economic crisis, part-time employment was very low in Hungary. During the crisis, however, the most rapid increase in the number of part-time employees within the European Union was observed in Hungary. Part-time employment increased in a number of European Union countries for...

Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would like to work longer hours (the underemployed). And contrary to the assumption that the...

Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on...

Ever since the seminal work of Stigler (1962), economists have recognized that information in markets is costly to acquire and can lead to “search frictionsâ€. The remarkable growth in online search has substantially lowered the cost of information acquisition. Despite this, there is...

Cet article revient sur l’interprétation théorique des l’élasticité du nombre d’heures travaillées aux salaires en tenant compte de la demande de travail à temps partiel dans le cadre d’un modèle d’équilibre de recherche en emploi. Une entreprise propose des emplois à temps...

"Das Hamburger Modell zur Beschäftigungsförderung zielt darauf ab, Arbeitslose mit geringen Verdienstmöglichkeiten und schlechten Arbeitsmarktchancen durch zeitlich befristete Zuschüsse, die sowohl den Teilnehmern an der Maßnahme als auch den Arbeitgebern gewährt werden, in den regulären...

Following the most recent recession, an attempt has been made to explain current levels of unemployment as resulting from structural unemployment, or a mismatch between the skills of the unemployed and the types of jobs available. The evidence, however, indicates that the issue is actually a...

A tanulmány a magyar munkanélküliek munkavállalási hajlandóságát elemzi. A munkavállalási hajlandóságot a becsült piaci munkakínálattal jellemezzük. Először Oaxaca tényezőkre bontásos módszere segítségével megvizsgáljuk a foglalkoztatottak és a munkanélküliek...