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 …

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 …

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 …

unemployment insurance, job retention and employment protection, as they play an additional and potentially prominent role in …

standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look … most effective for the reintegration of long-term unemployed persons. Subsequently, the special role of Public Employment …In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels …