, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it … determining the cyclical properties of labor market risk. -- Life-cycle risk ; uncertainty fluctuations ; business cycle …

Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and … uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are … the first to address this issue using large-scale, representative panel data that include both behavioral and stated risk …

lose their jobs during the crisis. This beneficial effect of trade union membership was more pronounced in countries which …Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and … there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance …

This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard …, it compares aggregate labour market dynamics during the global financial crisis with that observed during the 1997 crisis …. Counterfactual simulations suggest that the employment response during the global crisis would have been smaller if the incidence of …

, and the Euro/financial crisis in 2008-2009, which was followed by a general and intensive reform process in the years … business cycle oscillations. This has been especially so in the recent crisis and calls for fine tuning policy measures …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely …