This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted … discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the … scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is …

1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment … liberalising reforms on wages, while the employment effects of reforms differ markedly across age groups and partly depend on the …

benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the euro area from a Bayesian narrative panel VAR. The approach … activity and employment. In contrast to UB reforms, the effects of EPL reforms on employment emerge only gradually …

employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … depends also on labor market fundamentals such as bargaining power and the flows in and out of employment …

and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …

and employment all rise and then crash) in response to such a news shock, in a standard real business cycle model. However …