For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective … on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time … period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the evolution of older workers' employment in Belgium and its neighboring …

compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …

Covid-19 pandemic and related employment protection policies on the labor market outcomes of recent university graduates. We … find that both males and females are less likely to be employed during the pandemic year, with more pronounced employment … losses for females. While gender differences in employment arise from females' high skill employment losses, becoming …

systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose employment …

for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account … for the fact that employment is correlated across states. Such correlation may exist if a change in the minimum wage in a … state affects employment not only in its own state but also in other, neighboring states. The authors show that state …

other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and … a significant negative impact on prevalence of both types of informal employment. The share of non-contracted employees … falls with stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) and higher tax wedge on labor. Thus it appears that in Europe at …

research on the employment effect of minimum wages in SSA, but the few findings are consistent with the broad summary of global …. However, there is significant variation around this average finding - the employment elasticities are not constant nor linear …. Where increases in a minimum wage are large and immediate, this can result in employment losses, but more modest increases …

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that …: almost every European economy has more stringent employment protection and more generous social benefits than peers in North …