This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … employment and generates a substantial increase in productivity (2.6%) by allowing firms to completely adapt to changing economic …

institution short-time work) and the discretionary component (i.e., rule changes) stabilize employment over the business cycle. In …

incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating employment, incentives for seeking and keeping a job, incentives for …

falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …

employment. A two-country model is used to demonstrate that the open economy dimension can enhance the ability of sticky price … from domestic goods. This causes a temporary decline in domestic employment. If the expenditure-switching effect is …

full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …

inappropriate minimum wage schedules. Both measures made East German production possibilities and employment decline. …

employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe … variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … and Japan than in the United States. Employment contributes the largest proportion of the cycle in Europe and the United …