labour market policies on youth employment in France. We focus our discussion on three types of policies: (1) youth … or employment probabilities, except if they have a large training content. In contrast, the reduction of labour costs has … employment schemes for out-of-employment and low-skilled young adults, (2) on-the-job training schemes, (3) payroll tax subsidies …

lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …

We use longitudinal individual wage, hours, and employment data to investigate the effect of the 1981 mandatory … these changes, those working 40 hours in March 1981, lost their jobs between 1981 and 1983 more often than workers not … of tackling their unemployment problem. …

We study the impact of new technologies (NT) on wages and employment using a unique panel that matches data on …

We use longitudinal individual wage, hours, and employment data to investigate the effect of the February 1, 1982 … workers directly affected by these changes - those working 40 hours in March 1981 - were more likely to lose their jobs … employment losses vary between 2% and 4%, depending on the methodology or the data used. Furthermore, we show that minimum wage …