for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right- wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment … mechanisms generating a positive inequality-growth relationship work mainly in the short-run and are reflected in difference …

more narrow range of low-quality mass products. In this framework, inequality affects the composition of R&D through price … and market size effects. The inequality–growth relationship depends on how mass production affects productivity; and on … the particular dimension of inequality (income gaps versus income concentration). Our model is sufficiently tractable to …

Inequality affects economic performance through many mechanisms, both beneficial and harmful. Moreover, some of these … how changes in inequality affect economic growth over different time horizons; (ii) empirically investigates the … inequality–growth relationship, thereby relying on specifications derived from the theory. Our empirical findings are in line …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

strong incentives for product innovations (new luxuries). We show that the inequality-growth relationship depends on which …

When it comes to the inequality-growth relationship, the empirical literature offers contradictory assessments … of inequality while the level-based estimators also incorporate the negative consequences - which require more time to … materialize. Thus, the latter estimates come close to reflect the adverse overall impact of inequality in the long run. …

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the level of innovative activities in a model where innovations …