to 1990, both with respect to employment and unemployment measures. However, with the advent of the deep recession in …

-country variation in the rigidity of employment protection legislation. However, the supporting evidence is largely confined to levels … introduces a new index capturing the rigidity of employment protection legislation (LAMRIG) for an unbalanced panel of more than …

decades in Brazil, with an eye toward gauging the effects of employment protection on employment adjustment over the business … cycle. Since the difference between the sectors is stark and well-defined, the consequences of employment protection on … flows through the labor market are relatively easy to discern. Employment protection causes adjustment to demand …

We study the role of employment protection legislation (EPL) in explaining the relative small average size of Italian …

those with short job tenure. Roughly half of those displaced find re-employment within two months while the other half … lingers on in the state of non-employment. There is less evidence however of a wage penalty to job loss, unlike in some … in Estonia. The main cost of displacement is then the income loss due to non-employment, which is severe for a minority …

nature and magnitude of shocks to employment and worker benefits during the period of economic structuring from 1996 to 2001 …, and evaluate the extent to which adversely affected urban workers had access to public and private assistance. Employment …

employment growth and poverty alleviation, and that improves upon the implementation of support schemes. …

evidence shows positive relationships between job turnover, young establishments, and metropolitan employment growth. Most … systematically with the overall employment growth of a region. Together, the results suggest that (i) processes of both creative …