employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is … unemployment spell suffer a (causal) penalty for doing so, relative to their peers who do not. The penalty, in terms of less … employment, more unemployment, lower wages, lessens over time but is still present after three years. …

seven market work intervals and seven house work intervals for each partner. The model is estimated using data for France …

introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

mandatory reduction of weekly working hours in France. Just after François Mitterrand?s election in May 1981, the government … creation. These results should help us understand the possible effects of the upcoming mandatory reduction of hours in France … envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …