efficient than a blanket ban on post-agency employment and may increase social welfare. This insight extends to a variety of …

Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic …

corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual … enforcement to combat corruption by increasing enforcement employment is ineffective, rather comprehensive improvements in …Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …

We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons … behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …