In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by efficiency wages, it is shown that a balanced-budget shift...

Various taxes influence wage and employment outcomes in efficiency wage models. These findings are extended by incorporating more comprehensive tax functions, additional tax parameters, union-firm wage bargaining, and balanced budget restrictions. Moreover, the importance of different effort...

In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by efficiency wages, it is shown that a balanced-budget shift...

Does a country?s level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...

One common feature of all empirical wage curve studies is the underlying assumption that the unemployment rate is the natural indicator of labor market tightness. However, we observe that in many European countries governments spend remarkable amounts on labor market training programs. As...

"One common feature of all empirical wage curve studies is the underlying assumption that the unemployment rate is the natural indicator of labour market tightness. However, we observe that in many European countries governments spend remarkable amounts on active labour market policies, such as...

"Für den Arbeitsmarkt der neuen Bundesländer wird untersucht, ob sich die individuellen beruflichen Folgerisiken von Kurzarbeitern und Arbeitslosen unterscheiden. Analysiert werden beruflicher Verbleib und - im Falle einer Wiederbeschäftigung - die Veränderung der Job-Qualität. Die...

"Für den Arbeitsmarkt der neuen Bundesländer wird untersucht, ob sich die individuellen beruflichen Folgerisiken von Kurzarbeitern und Arbeitslosen unterscheiden. Analysiert werden beruflicher Verbleib und - im Falle einer Wiederbeschäftigung - die Veränderung der Job-Qualität. Die...

"One common feature of all empirical wage curve studies is the underlying assumption that the unemployment rate is the natural indicator of labour market tightness. However, we observe that in many European countries governments spend remarkable amounts on active labour market policies, such as...