payroll taxation and the social safety net for cyclical fluctuations ina nonmonetary economy with labor market frictions and … unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget … rendersgross wages more rigid over the cycle and, as a result, strengthens the model’s endogenouspropagation mechanism. For …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment …

einer Hinsicht Konsens: Mit den bisher eingesetzten Mitteln und Instrumenten ist das Ziel eines Abbaus der Arbeitslosigkeit …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

employmentgrows suddenly. For instance, since August 2003, nonfarmpayroll employment increased by 2.5 million, for a monthlyaverage of … long in this recovery. It wouldtake employment growth of some 300,00 per month over thenext year and a half to bring the … employment-population rateto the 64.4 level it held during 2000. …