minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment … skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and the utility losses of inefficient … the revenue losses from higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics. Our …

This paper studies the impact of skill formation on employment opportunities and wages. Instead of international trade … theory or technological progress theory, the paper focuses on labor "skill formation" to investigate the employment … skill formation has a positive impact on employment opportunities and wages. This result exhibits robustness in tests on …

market opportunity structures and their employment attitudes (i.e. skills and retraining). Building on the varieties of … assess this proposition, we draw on original survey data and compare young people's employment attitudes in five European …

The present paper develops a three sector Harris-Todaro (1970) type general equilibrium model of unemployment by … effects of the inflows of foreign capital on the level of unskilled unemployment and skilled-unskilled wage inequality. We … find that an inflow of foreign capital raises the skilled- unskilled wage gap and lowers the level of unemployment of the …

minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment … skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and the utility losses of inefficient … the revenue losses from higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics. Our …

Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind … the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general … higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …

Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind … the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general … higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …

Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind … the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general … higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …

In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to … also how skill formation or education affects unemployment among the remaining uneducated. We have developed a general … equilibrium model of a small open developing economy incorporating skill formation, unemployment of unskilled labour in the formal …