lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment …, can explain this disparity. In this chapter we present some estimates of the loss of consumption suffered by unemployed …In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is …

This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different OECD labour markets in … gender differences in labour market transitions of workers among inactivity, unemployment, working in the PS and working in … female labour market outcomes. To do so, we provide some empirical evidence about cross-country gender differences in choice …

‘atypical’/temporary/part-time employment contracts for new entrants in the labour market. As a result, the incidence of … other countries. Secondly, we address the puzzle of why temporary employment in Spain remains so high, despite recent labour … contrast with other institutional reforms of the labour market, there seems to be a common strategy of maintaining strict …

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 …

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 …

, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …

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 …

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 …