reform of the Welfare State are outlined. …

larger on employment than on real wages, in contrast to findings for previous crises which found the reverse to be true …This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Philippine labor market, focusing on employment and real … wages and their respective outcomes across sectors and various worker characteristics. To analyze the pandemic's impacts on …

unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is steep enough to generate increasing returns to education. This may lead … to multiple equilibria: a high-education equilibrium may coexist with a low-education equilibrium. In the former, the … Pareto-ranked, but the latter is preferred to the former by workers, while `savers' prefer the high-education equilibrium. …

, level of education and other economic and social factors that may affect individual’s propensity to commit crimes such as …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …

. Argentina's experience shows that direct job creation programs that offer employment at a base wage can have the unique capacity …Over the past decade and a half the ability of the employer-of-last-resort (ELR) proposal to deliver full employment … paper argues that the two objectives are not mutually exclusive by revisiting Argentina's experience with Plan Jefes and its …

social safety net and the need and scope for maintaining a high employment rate in a welfare state of the Scandinavian type … market contact, and exit from the labour market. Finally, we consider some recent reform proposals and initiatives in Denmark …