the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create jobs. But the impact of these labor reforms on income inequality …

administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and … substantial rise in fixedterm and part-time employment. The rise in parttime work explains much of the rise in earnings inequality … contributed to the slowdown in labor productivity in Italy by delaying human capital accumulation (in the form of general and firm …

At the macro level, productivity is driven by technology and the efficiency of resource allocation, as outcomes of … reducing labor market rigidities in states with high informality has a net positive effect on aggregate productivity …

other countries in the Eurozone, and how they may be addressed by policies at the European level …

higher average wages; thus any relatively slower employment growth in this group of firms could lead to lower inequality …

as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as … hypothesize that income inequality likely has increased due to the pandemic. Policies aiming at reducing inequality in the labor …

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

The Italian economy has been struggling with low productivity growth and bank balance sheet strains. This paper … examines the implications for firm productivity of adverse shocks to bank lending in Italy, using a novel identification scheme …-to-labor ratio, and productivity. The transmission from changes in credit supply to firm productivity relates to labor market …