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 …

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 …

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 …

and the unemployment rate in U.S. data since 1929. Second, it compares a new model of the economy developed in recent … fiscal stimulus will not permanently restore full employment. In Farmer’s model, as in the Keynesian model, employment is …

which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model …

unemployment duration spells, relatively large wage penalties when changing jobs and higher likelihood of leaving activity for … and persistent unemployment compared to Estonia during the period of EU enlargement. Traditional labour market … institutions (wage rigidity and employment protection) increased, but to a much lesser extent, the unemployment gap. …

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 …