model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costsmay even reduce temporary work agency employment if …-term employment arrangements. -- employment protection ; temporary work agencies ; search and matching models ; unemployment …

and efficient bargaining - to the existence of a budget constraint pending on the financing of the unemployment benefit …. Consequences of how the unions value members and members' status (employed or unemployed) in their collective maximand …, implications of union having control over membership, and, hence, of unemployment insurance coverage, are also considered, as well …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

increased probability that employed workers become unemployed and with a reduction in worker flows from unemployment to …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …