positive links between employment protection, depression and the consumption of various psychotropic drugs. Tenure and firm …Unlike many other contracts, employment contracts are subject to various external administrative procedures governing … Health Survey) including details on work-related stress and the consumption of various medications, including anti …

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 …

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 …

, unemployment and capital accumulation. First, we recover the partial equilibrium over-employment phenomenon put to the fore by …. Further, with heterogeneous labour, higher relative bargaining power for some groups leads quite generally to over-employment … of workers is actually detrimental to employment when labour is considered as an homogeneous input. Finally, the hold …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … of jobs) favours specific human capital investments. This conjecture provides, among other things, a rationale for … differences in labour mobility and reallocation costs, which are typically ignored in American ‘International Trade’ textbooks yet …

insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …Following monetary union with the west in June 1990, the employment rate for east German 18-54 year olds fell from 89 …% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any …

Labour market frictions are not the only possible source of high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by … tractable macroeconomic model, we treat credit and labour market imperfections in a symmetrical way. Accordingly, we introduce … frictions, in the spirit of Diamond (1990). These imperfections mirror job search frictions in the labour market. We study the …