systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose 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 … period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the evolution of older workers' employment in Belgium and its neighboring …

for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account … for the fact that employment is correlated across states. Such correlation may exist if a change in the minimum wage in a … state affects employment not only in its own state but also in other, neighboring states. The authors show that state …

other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and … a significant negative impact on prevalence of both types of informal employment. The share of non-contracted employees … falls with stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) and higher tax wedge on labor. Thus it appears that in Europe at …

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that …: almost every European economy has more stringent employment protection and more generous social benefits than peers in North …

research on the employment effect of minimum wages in SSA, but the few findings are consistent with the broad summary of global …. However, there is significant variation around this average finding – the employment elasticities are not constant nor linear …. Where increases in a minimum wage are large and immediate, this can result in employment losses, but more modest increases …

This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent … that governments use when designing and implementing activation and employment-support policies. In particular, it aims to … provide individual and household perspectives on employment problems, which may be missed when relying on common labour …

We measure the impact of employment protection reduction in an uncertain framework on firms' hires and performance …-exporting and non-innovative firms. Our evidence casts doubts on the effectiveness of employment protection reductions in enhancing …