microdata covering all 2014-2018 vacancy and jobseeker registrations from the Public Employment Services of Belgium, Morocco …

by comparing affiliated and non-affiliated firms in terms of sales, employment, productivity, and wages. Using matched …

randomised control trials. The training provided is typically of a general nature, which is consistent with employers' labour … market power. Several areas for future research are also proposed, including the role of labour market institutions in …

-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct labour market effects of imports from China studied in previous research, we also … employeremployee data of Portugal covering the 1991-2008 period, indicate that workers' earnings and employment are significantly …

also find that those firms that cut overtime premiums exhibit significant relative increases in overtime usage, employment …

Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations …

, while employer labour market power reduces wages, it increases RS. Overall, despite its importance, RS in China is smaller … nature of its labour market institutions. …

Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote employment, particularly in recessions or when …-term workers to other firms drops by 10%. Employment also increases significantly for younger workers. …

experience wage increases following an extension, formal employment and wage bills in the relevant sectors fall, on average, by 2 …%. These results increase by about 25% across small firms and are driven by reduced hirings. In contrast, the employment and … wage bills of independent contractors, who are not subject to labour law or collective bargaining, increases by over 1 …

How much value does collective bargaining add to the working conditions already established in general labour law? In … norms from six collective agreements in Portugal and then comparing them to the country’s Labour Code. We find that as many … as 62% of those collective bargaining norms are exactly or virtually equal to the Labour Code; only 25% (an average of 16 …