The paper develops a simple political-economy model of unemployment benefit determination in a small open economy characterized by bargaining between firms and unions. The authors derive a number of comparative static results and present empirical results for a panel of OECD countries that are...

The paper builds up a Harris-Todaro type general equilibrium model to examine the implications of a free education policy and liberalized trade policies on the child labour market. It shows that an increase in the subsidy on education and/or inflow of foreign capital may produce...