Subsidizing extra jobs: promoting employment by taming the unions
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Subsidizing Extra Jobs: Promoting Employment by Taming the Unions
We study the subsidization of extra jobs in a general equilibrium framework. While the previous literature focuses on symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme that only rewards employment expansion. This changes the incidence substantially. In the asymmetric case...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oxford Economic Papers
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1464-3812,0030-7653
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gps040