optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection … models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage …

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross … account for cross-country variations in both the level and the dynamics of employment rates of demographic groups. Second, we …-national differences in family attitudes. Studying the correlation between employment rates and family attitudes, we then show that the …

threshold, covering about 15% of total employment. Drawing on linked employer-employee longitudinal data and regression … the number of permanent contracts and decreased employment in large firms. However, we find evidence of positive … because they diffuse to the whole economy. We estimate that the reform slightly reduced aggregate employment and had negative …