Labor Market Inequality and Public Policies.

LABOR MARKET INEQUALITY AND PUBLIC POLICIES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Employability of Young Adults across OECD Countries: A Study by Levels of Education, Migrant Status, and Gender -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Unemployment by Educational Attainment and Gender -- Employment by Educational Attainment and Gender -- Entry-Level Jobs and Occupational Mismatches -- Educational Attainment and Job Matches by Migrant Status -- Labor Market Attachment of Young Adults -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Exogenous Skill Bias and Firms' Hiring Behavior -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 1. The Model -- 1.1. Qualification and Productivity Levels -- 1.2. The matching -- 1.3. Workers' Utility -- 1.4. Companies' Profits -- 1.5. Surplus Sharing -- 1.6. The Balance of Flows -- 2. Balance and Model Resolution -- 2.1. Resolution -- 2.2. Jobs' Creation -- 2.3. Static Comparative -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 A New Orientation to Social Policy -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 1. Universal Allocation (UA) and Negative Tax (NT): The Basis of the Debates between Supporters and Detractors of the Concept -- 1.1. A Brief History of the Genesis of the Concept -- 1.2. Universal Allocation and Negative Income Tax -- 2. From the Settings of UA to the Diversity of His Supporters -- 2.1. What Amount for UA: Below, Above or Just at the Poverty Line? -- 2.2. What Financing Method for the Device: Social Dividend, Negative Income Tax or VAT? -- a) "Social Dividend"Financed by a Country's Natural Resources -- b) Financing by the VAT -- 3.Critics of the UA -- 3.1. A Frequent and Spontaneous Criticism Made by Many: One Will Still Not Pay People to Do Nothing!.

3.2. A More Ideological Criticism, on the Grounds of Morality: One Cannot Take on Productive Work to Fund the Unconditional Surfer... -- 3.3. The problem with the Individualization of UA -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Income Inequality: Is There Really an Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff? -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theory -- Empirical Model -- Estimation Results -- Unit Root Tests -- Cointegration Tests -- Vector Error Correction Estimation -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix I. Variable Descriptions -- Chapter 5 The Active Employment Policies and Flexicurity -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Flexibility -- 2. Security -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.