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 …

We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries …?erences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD countries. It finds that GDP per capita, the size of the government … sector and the extent of urbanization are positively associated with the service employment share. However, the evidence …