In order to account for the evolution of employment at the macro-economic level, we have developed a model wherein … employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data … are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We obtain a relationship in which employment rises …

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties …

work neutralising their beneficial effects on employment, has been envisaged by those opposing such policies. We … investigate this issue using microdata by the Bank of Italy. In Italy, the incidence of overtime work among male dependent workers … is relatively high. In particular, we seek to ascertain if, for Italy too, the fear that a reduction in working hours …

The paper elaborates on the employment intensity of growth. Previous evidence regarding this question is surveyed … that the employment intensity of growth is influenced by the country's wage setting process, the share of the service …

the workforce, the effects of tenure wages and employment protect ion on the perceived gap and whether a perceived labour … surveys administered to employers in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden … productivity. Both the presence of tenure wages and employment protection rules increase the probability that employers perceive a …