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 …

The consumption behaviour of UK, US and Japanese households is examined and compared using a modern Ando …-Modigliani style consumption function. The models incorporate income growth expectations, income uncertainty, housing collateral and … credit availability for UK and US but not Japanese households has undergone large shifts since 1980. The average consumption …

There is widespread disagreement about the role of housing wealth in explaining consumption. This paper exploits liquid …, to explain fluctuations in the ratios of consumption and household debt to income in South Africa, from 1971 to 2005. The … variable with key interactions with drivers of consumption and debt. Credit conditions are proxied by a spline function …

Australian data, we model non-price credit supply conditions within equilibrium correction models of consumption, house prices …, but also interact with key economic variables. We show that credit conditions impact on consumption by: (i) lowering the … real activity; and (iii) facilitating intertemporal consumption smoothing. …

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 …

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. …