The consequences of introducing or tightening time limits on receiving high unemployment benefits are studied in a shirking model. Stricter time limits have an ambiguous impact on the net wage, and changes of utility levels of employed workers and recipients of high unemployment benefits have...

The impacts of introducing or tightening time limits on welfare use are studied in an efficiency wage model. Those losing access to regular benefits receive some smaller benefit, which can be interpreted as food stamps. Stricter time limits raise both employment and profits and generally reduce...

The impacts of introducing or tightening time limits on welfare use are studied in an efficiency wage model. Those losing access to regular benefits receive some smaller benefit, which can be interpreted as food stamps. Stricter time limits raise both employment and profits and generally reduce...

The paper shows that for severe enough search frictions, a market for employed workers with wage gains emerges despite the presence of adverse selection. Asymmetric information about a worker's productivity between the worker's current employer and the outside market enables the current employer...

This paper extends the equilibrium search model of Burdett and Mortensen by introducing two different occupations. Local monopsony power and the complementarity of the occupations in production imply that firms occupy the same position in the wage distribution of each occupation. The model also...

The literature on firm-financed general training after Becker tried to explain the firmst incentive to invest in general training by looking at labour market ftictions. These friction were not only taken to explain the existence of firm-financed general training but were -- besides the workers'...