between government and social partners. -- unemployment ; inequality ; wage rigidity ; time inconsistency … with less perverse effect on unemployment. Time inconsistency is more likely due to lack of credibility than to the short …

with less perverse effect on unemployment. Time inconsistency is more likely due to lack of credibility than to the short …

. The most important factors driving the shadow economy are indirect taxation and unemployment. Analyzing the interaction …

unemployment, lowering the returns to human capital and encouraging further emigration. Corruption also shifts public spending from …

and measures aimed at vulnerable populations are more effective than other ALMPs in terms of reducing unemployment and …

may have increased unemployment. It is shown that it is likely to be so if they are associated with an increase in the …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …