Labor Market Institutions and Public Relations

Series Foreword vii Introduction ix 1 The Effects of Active Labor-Market Policies in Sweden: What Is the Evidence? 1(62) Lars Calmfors, Anders Forslund, and Maria Hemström 2 Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change 63(38) Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller 3 Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain Have the Worst of Both Worlds? 101(22) Gilles Saint-Paul 4 Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device? 123(40) Robert Dur and Coen N. Teulings 5 Mandated Severance Pay in an Efficiency-Wage Economy 163(32) Laszlo Goerke 6 Some Macroeconomic Consequences of Basic Income and Employment Subsidies 195(26) Thomas Moutos and William Scarth List of Contributors 221(2) Index 223