and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of … unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in hirings on …

disemployment effects. Regions with weaker enforcement had no employment losses but substantial increases in informality. All … effects are concentrated on unskilled workers, with no effects on skilled workers. The results indicate that informality acts …

protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and … and to what extent different socio-economic groups were affected. -- automatic stabilisers ; unemployment protection ; tax …

barrier and demand deregulation. Similar divides are expected for unemployment benefits: as insiders and outsiders have … diverging unemployment risks, they should demand different levels of protection. Although these views are influential in the …

market reforms is a sustainable reduction of structural and cyclical unemployment. This chapter reviews major approaches and …

), the tax wedge, the unemployment benefit level, unemployment benefit duration and union density, are assembled at the IZA … size of the informal economy. There is also evidence that a larger tax wedge increases informality. The tax wedge … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality …