contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …

active labor market policies. The paper provides an overview of reform patterns and tries to assess whether and to what …

reform are necessary in order to achieve common objectives across countries, and on the other provide indications of the … appropriate directions for reform in each case. …

reform trajectories in a diverse group of European countries that are characterised by a high share of temporary employment … two preceding decades - or based on dualisation or insider-outsider theory. The reform trajectories are characterised by …

Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the "optimal" level of government at which to delegate environmental … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …

allow regional productivity to be taken into account. -- Wages ; collective bargaining ; federalism ; regions ; Belgium …