consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …

This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data …-setting institutions. …

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …