receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

We study the impact of the Austrian Employment Act for the Disabled which grants extended employment protection …, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled (SD) workers. Using a large sample of … SDstatus is associated with lower employment and earnings. However, workers holding a job when acquiring legal SD-status have …

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … market behavior, in particular the duration of unemployment, although there remains substantial uncertainty about the …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … by a period of sharp deflation where nominal wages and prices fell by 30 percent and unemployment increased from 5 to 30 … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and rightwing criminal activities. We show further that the big … difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This …