impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures … is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the …

We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We … results point to a negative effect of downward wage rigidities on employment at the firm level …

This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data … from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because … more exposed to external shocks. We assess the conditional employment volatility of firms with foreign and domestic owners …

develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …

. In this paper, we study transitions out of work for 26 EU countries over the period 2004-2009 in order to investigate the … determinants of retirement based on the Eurostat Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Applying standard survivor … between the average euro area and EU non-euro area countries. Moreover, we find that shifts into retirement have increased …

2013. While we find that labour market reforms are overall effective in increasing employment, restricted access to bank … credit can undo up to half of long-term employment gains at the firm-level. Entrepreneurs without sufficient access to credit … cannot reap the full benefits of more flexible employment regulation …

credit relationships with affected banks experienced a significant decline in employment and in labor compensation relative … to firms whose credit relationships were with healthy banks. We also find that the employment effect increases, and the … wage effect decreases with firm size. The decline in employment at firms attached to affected banks appears to be more long …