Evidence suggests that unemployed individuals can affect their job prospects by undertaking a costly action like deciding to move or retrain. Realistically, such an opportunity only arises for some individuals and the identity of those may be unobservable ex ante. The problem of characterizing...

The paper analyzes the effects of a reduction in working time on wages and employment with a monopoly union. In general it is not clear in which directions these variables move, but if employment and working time are perfect substitutes, the effects are related to how working time has been...