We study how the political cost of enforcing a lockdown in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak relates to citizens … information. Lock-downs entail a political cost that helps explain why democracies may adopt epidemiologically suboptimal policies …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … findings indicate that an increase in unemployment benefits and in taxes does not generate a strong decline in mobility and …

a modest reduction in cost per student, but only for undergraduate instruction. Recent policy efforts to promote …

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage …

Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that …) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no "firing cost" effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …

face of higher migration costs, only immigrants with relatively high expected benefits of migration will choose to migrate …

voluntary severance packages, which are less costly than the full statutory firing cost. We formalize those mechanisms within an …