When unemployment rates reached double-digit levels in many OECD countries at the beginning of the 1990s, fighting unemployment became the prime target of economic policy-making and a major focus of economic research1. The OECD (1994) launched a major study - the OECD Jobs Study - which...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, die herrschenden mikro- und makroökonomischen Theorien einem Prognose- und Erklärungstest zu unterziehen und mit einem alternativen Ansatz zu kontrastieren.

It is frequently argued that pure government-mandated severance transfers by the employer to the worker have neither employment nor welfare effect because they can be offset by private transfers from the worker to the employer. In this paper, using a dynamic search and matching model a la...