Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …). -- employment protection ; fuzzy-set QCA ; political economy …

, namely, the employment shift from industry and agriculture to services. The second contribution of the paper is the focus on …

This paper explores how the introduction of an experience rated system of unemployment insurance affects employment and … literature, it has been argued that experience rated systems of unemployment insurance may reduce long term employment as firms …, the introduction of experience rating may increase long term employment. Moreover, it unambiguously increases welfare. …

This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high … school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time …

large share of temporary contracts, but once we restrict attention to employment spells lasting at least one month these …

and employment, generates a fractionalized understanding of the multidimensional career effect that union membership has …

We investigate a prevalent, but understudied, employment protection policy: mandatory advance notice (MN), requiring … leads to shorter non-employment duration and higher reemployment wages, plausibly driven by on-the-job search. Using …