trade unions. We use a simple set up in order to clearly expose the basic mechanisms that also work in more complex …

trade unions. We use a simple set up in order to clearly expose the basic mechanisms that also work in more complex …

In this paper we study the implications of the unemployment insurance (UI) financing system on wage levels and … approach of wage and employment determination and assume that unemployment benefits are financed by employees’ UI contributions … to the union’s UI fund and by the government’s tax revenue. The main focus of this paper is on the effects of UI buffer …

We calibrate an infinite-horizon model with endogenous growth and unemployment on actual data from the largest … taxes when financed either raising capital taxation or reducing unemployment subsidies. We find two main results: (i) with … lump-sum transfers, reducing labor taxes and unemployment subsidies is beneficial to both employment and growth, while …

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another … have more entitlements, waiting in unemployment for a good job is not one of them. We carry out two separate analyses to … no added worker effect. This suggests that households have other ways to cope with unemployment and is consistent with …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …