In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment … can unambiguously increase unemployment. Interestingly, I find that tightening the restrictions on redundancies and …

This paper investigates the effects of using dismissal taxes to finance unemployment benefits. We compare dismissal and … account the effects their dismissal decisions have on others. By introducing dismissal taxes to finance unemployment insurance …, these externalities can partly be internalized. Taking into account the budget of the unemployment insurance, employment …

fighting unemployment, increasing the level of severance payments can increase employment for small judicial mistakes and …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

rent created by skill formation. Furthermore, it will be shown that high-skilled workers face shorter unemployment duration …

rent created by skill formation. Furthermore, it will be shown that high-skilled workers face shorter unemployment duration …

sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

's skill level. We establish that, for young workers, unemployment incidence increases with skill in high-firing-tax countries … maintaining unemployment duration and the unemployment rate as decreasing functions of skill in all countries. Because of constant …