Times of high unemployment always inspire debates on the role of labor market policy and its optimal implementation. This paper uses a dynamic model of search unemployment and bilateral wage bargaining to characterize optimal labor market policy in a possibly turbulent environment. A firing...

A parsimonious search and matching model of the labor market with endogenous separation is embedded in a North-North intermediate goods trade framework. International product market integration leads to redistribution of market shares from 'weak' to 'strong' firms within an industry, implying...

The study analyses the migration potential and the impact on Austria's economy that is to be expected after the lifting of access restrictions for Bulgarian and Romanian nationals as of 1 January 2014. Estimates show that in the years 2014 and 2015 net migration from the EU-2 to Austria will...

Times of high unemployment always inspire debates on the role of labor market policy and its optimal implementation. This paper uses a dynamic model of search unemployment and bilateral wage bargaining, rich enough to analyze a set of policy instruments with respect to their employment and...

A parsimonious search and matching model of the labor market with endogenous separation is embedded in a North-North intermediate goods trade framework. International product market integration leads to redistribution of market shares from 'weak' to 'strong' firms within an industry, implying...

As the heterogeneity in life expectancy by socioeconomic status increases, pension systems become more regressive implying wealth transfers from short to long lived individuals. Various pension reforms aim to reduce these inequalities that are caused by ex-ante differences in life expectancy....

Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Charakterisierung optimaler Arbeitsmarktpolitik für verschiedene Erweiterungen des Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides Modells. Kapitel 1 beschreibt optimale Arbeitsmarktpolitik in einem ökonomisch turbulenten Umfeld, welches in Form von...

As the heterogeneity in life expectancy by socioeconomic status increases, pension systemsbecome more regressive implying wealth transfers from short to long lived individuals. Variouspension reforms aim to reduce these inequalities that are caused by ex-ante differences in lifeexpectancy....