and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment … protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

We study the relationship between employment growth and worker flows in excess of job flows (churn) at the … establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975–2014. Churn is above 5 percent of employment along the … entire employment growth distribution and most pronounced at rapidly-adjusting establishments. We find that the patterns of …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …

This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting … out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both … groups. However, the responsibility for employment policies still predominantly lies within Member States of the European …

study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been … relinquished for a larger share of dependent population. Unemployment insurance benefit duration is shorter now and newly created … basic income support for needy persons is not earnings-related anymore. Pressure on unemployed to take up jobs has increased …

variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment …

This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have … been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We suggest that the longer people are unemployed … work habits. We develop a model along these lines, which allows us to bridge the gap between high macroeconomic employment …

reform trajectories in a diverse group of European countries that are characterised by a high share of temporary employment … of employment regulation are characterised by much more dynamism than one would expect based on the experiences of the …