In times of increasing employment uncertainty, the question of employability gains more and more importance. Among the many measures to enhance employee employability the provision of outplacement benefits play a prominent role. This paper takes a first step in systematically exploring the economic rationale of outplacement benefits by considering a number of theoretical approaches that may help to ...
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market institutions such as minimum wage laws and nationwide collective bargaining. However, these studies neglect ...