French employment protection legislation before the crisis started. -- temporary contracts ; unemployment ; Great Recession …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …

"In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of … improving their employability. Well-known examples are the introduction of atypical employment contracts (e.g. temporary and … EPL varying among workers of different skills on the level and composition of unemployment, job flows, productivity and …

stepping-stone or dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training … the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its … discussions on a very relevant topic in many European countries, in particular in several that had a very poor employment …

. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …

This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different OECD labour markets in … of employment in the PS vs. the private sector, using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), in the light of … transitions by male and female workers among inactivity, unemployment, working in the PS and working in the private sector …

last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower educated workers, symptoms of over …

(hopefully) transitory shock through a big reallocation process of employment and economic activity. …