This paper studies the impact of an unemployment protection legislation reform - a substitution between an experience … rated tax and firing costs - on the level and structure of unemployment by skills. In this purpose, we consider a matching … free entry condition and the tax rate aimed at financing unemployment benefits results from a balanced budget constraint …

contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … rating is desirable, not only as a part of unemployment compensation finance as most studies acknowledge but also as part and …

for Objective 1 support occurred in the UK region of Cornwall in 2000, we are able to compare Cornwall's unemployment … for not having received Objective 1 funding. Second, we use Local Authority Districts and compare the unemployment change … unemployment in Cornwall as compared to regions that did not benefit from Objective 1 support. In the second part of the study we …

creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate …

This paper discusses various concepts of unemployment rate benchmarks that are frequently used by policymakers for … particular, we propose two broad categories of unemployment rate benchmarks: (1) a longer-run unemployment rate expected to … prevail after adjusting to business cycle shocks and (2) a stable-price unemployment rate tied to inflationary pressures. We …