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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … the share of service-related jobs in total employment. Although converging in all European countries, a significant gap in … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …

This paper studies the role of wage moderation and labour and product market regulation for employment creation. To … for the pooled group of countries. This paper shows that labour cost moderation generally helps employment creation …, notwithstanding the fact that elasticities of employment to labour costs vary across the countries and sectors analysed. It also shows …

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 …

investigate how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the … banks. Yet, findings also indicate that employment consequences of credit shortages have been essentially detrimental for …

evidence on the impacts of labour market reforms, which seem to have a potential to address impediments towards employment …

relationship with affected banks borrow less and reduce employment mostly of high-skilled workers. High-skilled workers are more …