Measuring Inefficiency of the Czech Labour Market

Spatial effects of open borders on the Czech labour market

I would like to thank the participants of the IAB Graduate Program, Nuremberg, where parts of this paper were presented, for helpful comments. I am particularly grateful to Joachim Möller (University of Regensburg) and Uwe Blien (IAB) for very valuable advice and suggestions as well as to Daniel Münich (CERGE-EI, Prague), who helped me a lot in getting to know the data. Any errors, however, rem...

The Effects Of Afghan Immigrants On The Iranian Labour Market

Measuring Waste from Inefficiency

An attractive feature of competitive markets is that they maximize the sum of consumer and producer surplus. Producer and consumer surplus are shown in the market supply and market demand diagram in Figure 7-4. Recall that the producer surplus for all producers is the area above the supply curve and below the market price line, and that the consumer surplus for all consumers is the area below t...

Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed institutional features of these policies and allows for selection on observables and unobservables. We estimate t...

New Labour and the Labour Market

The recent run of good macro-economic news masks mounting evidence that worklessness is increasingly concentrated on selected individuals, households, socio-economic groups and geographical areas . Simply focussing on the aggregate unemployment rate bypasses many of these issues. Likewise, concentration on average wages and wage growth obscures the highest level of wage inequality ever statisti...