Labor's Demand for Real Employment Security

Employment Security and the Future

To O N E J U S T B A C K from overseas the contrast between the United States and Europe is striking, particularly when one is transported in a few hours from a continent of hungry, unhappy people living amid widespread devastation and demoralization to a country with an abundance of the good things of life. But despite the destruction all about one in Europe, i t is inspiring to realize that a...

Employment and Supplemental Security Income.

It cannot be recommended that either beneficiary status or duration of widowhood be given recognition in the calculation and projection of mortality rates for program cost estimation, based on this study. The significance of beneficiary status is not yet clear, while the effect of duration of widowhood follows no pattern. Widow beneficiaries have higher mortality rates than wife beneficiaries, ...

Demand uncertainty , mismatch , and ( un ) employment ∗

A finite number of heterogeneous firms facing demand-induced price fluctuations imperfectly compete for heterogeneous workers. Because firms must commit to wages and employment before the realization of product price, they exhibit a risk-averse behavior. It is then shown that unemployment may arise in equilibrium because of the combination of uncertainty on product price and mismatch between wo...

Employment security: a conceptual exploration Working document for the programme “Employment security: new securities for a changing labour market”

Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor ?

Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits’ average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease when strict employment protection raises hiring and firing costs. We test the model using annual distri...