Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

are used to investigate this relationship. Findings point out to strong state dependence in employment choices. Further …, the impact of disability on employment outcomes is highly significant. Model simulations suggest that high cross and own … state dependence can amplify a one-off disability shock to alter the probability of full time employment and …

the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives …

it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment … study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in … friction parameters. In response to technology shocks, it is optimal to have procyclical public sector wages. Deviations from …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … relation to output or GDP reductions varies significantly across countries. It examines the impacts from an institutional … internal flexibility. At the same time, however, it appears that the crisis has - at least in some cases - contributed to a …

'precariousness'; it is rather the requirement of increasing variability in employment relations due to rising employment …This paper presents – in a new way of examination and portrayal – the extent and changes of nonstandard employment … relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and …

context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated … parental leave, and active labor market policies (ALMPs). Since it is unlikely that an unregulated private sector would provide … lower levels of wage inequality and high levels of job security to incumbent workers, it also in some cases leads to the …