countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective … on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our … framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to … structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …

Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing … reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms …

In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two … large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about pound;80,000 per small chain supermarket store …

rate.Labour market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …. In terms of employment protection, young workers are almost twice as strongly affected as older workers. Regarding …

influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …