that such rules are cost monotonic and induce also population monotonic allocation schemes.Another characteristic of …

delivers a population monotonic allocation scheme.A conewise positive linearity property is one of the basic ingredients of an …

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …