analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

retraining for new employment in the expanding sector. The paper derives an optimal welfare policy which combines the design of …

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …

possibilities single countries perceive in pursuing employment policies. In a setting where trade is driven by comparative … advantages, and thus wagecompetitiveness plays an important role for employment, it is shown that there is a tendency that a bias … arises in employmentpolicies. Policies expanding private employment tend to be used too little, while policies harming …

and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the …

intervention was highly effective in reducing unemployment duration, but also spurred employment instability and withdrawals from … the labour force. FPOs slightly, but significantly enhanced exits to employment without reinforcing recidivism relative to …

policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the … self-employed in European countries. No significant relation could be identified between the stringency of employment … protection and aggregate self-employment. However, there are significant, and oppositely signed, impacts on high- and low …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …