production to zero, we show that the effects of a WTR on (un)employment depend on the abundance of natural capital. If it is …

We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in an exogenous growth model with unemployment …

Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …