dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

case of employer initiated job separations. According to the extensive literature on Employment Protection Legislation (EPL …

This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting … bargaining over redundancy pay has no impact on recent employment variation for plants in the sample; and third, that financial …

, estimated on the German Socioeconomic Panel. In contrast to US findings, post-displacement wages decline only slightly upon re-employment …

We study the effects of the more stringent employment protection legislation (EPL) that applies in Italy to firms with … over 15 employees. We consider firms' propensity to grow when close to that threshold and changes in employment policies … less stable employment relations than those just below it. We document that this is because firms above the threshold make …

Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to … account for most new jobs. In 1997, however, the Spanish government attempted to reduce the incidence of temporary employment … contract regulations on employment and worker flows. Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey, we find that the reduction …

are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents … states that raised firing costs by introducing exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine. …

impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to the impact of product market regulations on employment growth …. This Paper analyses how labour and product market regulations interact to affect turnover and employment. We present a …