Under the Government's New Deal proposals to help create jobs for the young unemployed, employers are offered margtnal employment subsidies. Such interventions involve relative changes in the firm's fixed and variable labour costs. In turn, cost changes have implications for both employment and...

De nombreux travaux economiques, theoriques ou empiriques, affirme qu'il est malavise de vouloir creer des emplois en reduisant la duree du travail. Le present article examine plusieurs des points cles evoques dans ces analyses. Il s'appuie d'abord sur un modele de base de la demande de travail...

Under the Government's New Deal proposals to help create jobs for the young unemployed, employers are offered margtnal employment subsidies. Such interventions involve relative changes in the firm's fixed and variable labour costs. In turn, cost changes have implications for both employment and...

A radical reform of National Insurance was implemented in April I999. One objective of the reform was to stimulate job creation. This note analyses the effect of the changes in employers' contributions on employment. We find that the reform could stimulate the creation of about 200,000 jobs in...