We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL …) in the provision of insurance against labour market risk. Different countries’ locations along this trade-off represent … the strictness of EPL, the generosity of UBs and the amount of redistribution involved by the financing of unemployment …

We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL …) in the provision of insurance against labour market risk. The mix of quantity restrictions and price regulations adopted … two dimensions: employment status — there are insiders and outsiders — and skills — low and high skills. We show that if …

A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … unemployment into employment. … quarterly data from employment office districts, we estimate the effects of ALMPs on the job matching process in the CR. In so …

potentially significant impact of product and labour market regulations on employment and its composition. The evidence presented …The increasing literature on the interactions between liberalization-integration of product markets and labour market … frameworks are often lacking, making it difficult to identify the linkages with observed outcomes in the labour and product …

Employment protection legislations (EPL) are not enforced uniformly across the board. There are a number of exemptions …

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 …