A popular and long-standing view is that social security is a means for young, unemployed people to "purchase" jobs from older workers. Can social security, by encouraging retirement and hence creating job vacancies for the young, improve the allocation of workers to jobs? Maybe, according to a...

The state, resources and prerequisites for the employment growth in Bulgaria have been outlined. Approximate calculations of annual increases in the number of employed in the near future have been made with a view to the achievement of the generally accepted aims of the EU member states....

The equality level of women and men on the labour market and in the social security field is evaluated. Gender differences in the employment rate and profiles are studied. The specific job-seeking behaviour of women and men is analysed, as well as the impact of universal and gender determined...

We investigate the relationship between an individuals’ reservation wage and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment—the ‘wage curve’.

The Tobit model (censored regression model) is an important basic model appearing in many applications in economics. In this paper we consider a duration Tobit model in which a duration variable which counts the number of times the data is being censored is included as a covariate. We show that...

This paper studies the effect of banking system concentration on unemployment in developing countries. Using data on 42 developing countries, it finds that more concentration increased unemployment over the period 1987–2007. The magnitude of the effect is substantial. The result is robust to...

This paper examines the effects of fiscal stimuli in the form of job creation subsidies in a DSGE model with search friction and endogenous job separation. We consider two types of job creation subsidies: a subsidy for the cost of posting vacancies and a hiring subsidy. This paper finds that the...

Celem artykułu jest próba endogenizacji wybranych zmiennych rynku pracy takich jak wydajność pracy, płace realne brutto czy przyrost stóp bezrobocia w Polsce na poziomie powiatów w latach 2002–2011. Dokonano zatem analizy wpływu wybranych determinant na wyżej wymienione zmienne...

The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...

Unemployment belongs to the most serious economic and social problems of developed countries. Usually, the rate of unemployment is analysed. Another problem is the duration of unemployment and especially long-term unemployment. The unemployment duration in the Czech Republic in 2010 is analysed...