Deposit-Refundon Labor : A Solution to Equilibrium Unemployment? /

The paper studies the employment effects of a deposit-refund scheme on labor in a simple search-theoretic model of the labor market. It is shown that if a firm pays a deposit to the government when it fires a worker, to be refunded when it employs the same or another worker, the vacancy rate increas...

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Autore principale: Heijdra, Ben
Altri autori: Ligthart, Jenny
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/009
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF