In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real … indication of adverse effects for (the three) other employment outcomes identified here. Moreover, with the possible exception of …

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and … estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use … inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … outcomes in addition to employment effects. We report strong evidence of adverse employment effects among adult females and … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …

unemployment. The traditional search model predicts that more risk-averse individuals have lower reservation wages and thus are … less likely to be observed in unemployment. Our findings, however, do not support this prediction: on the contrary our data … suggest that more risk-averse individuals are more likely to be unemployed. …

effect is observed in flexible labour markets. This conditioning effect of employment protection is in line with a recently …Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms …' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms …

unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular … job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …. The focus of the analysis is temporary subsidized jobs. By exploiting the variation in the duration of these jobs it is …

effect of unions on employment growth. Following on a recent study of AWIRS (Wooden and Hawke, 2000), we reexamine the issue … similar evidence of employment retardation in union regimes. Moreover, use of the panel also hints that some other unfavorable …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual?s employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough … minimum wage. We find that movements in the American real minimum wage are associated with no employment effects, whereas …

despite stronger employment inertia, there is no suggestion in the firm panel that labour demand is cyclically unstable. …This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time … series of aggregate data. Although the employment data show persistence, there is nonetheless a fairly rapid rate of …

increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease when strict employment protection raises hiring and firing costs … Netherlands, Italy, the UK and the US. The model?s predictions are supported using the Blanchard-Wolfers index of employment …