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 …

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 …