This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard …, it compares aggregate labour market dynamics during the global financial crisis with that observed during the 1997 crisis …. Counterfactual simulations suggest that the employment response during the global crisis would have been smaller if the incidence of …

there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance … protecting their members from the negative effects of the global economic crisis. Using data for twenty one post … lose their jobs during the crisis. This beneficial effect of trade union membership was more pronounced in countries which …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely …

construction job in the United Arab Emirates, where a crisis exogenously influenced job placement. Guest work raised the return to …

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post-crisis … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …

levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi …

output changes at an early stage. We illustrate the method with an evaluation of the impact of the 2008-2009 crisis in …

the informal sector acts as a buffer for households during periods of crisis when formal sector employment opportunities …

With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we … crisis and changing relative prices and the changing responsiveness of different groups of people to these incomes and prices … and nutrient elasticities, which challenge the perception of household ability to smooth their nutrient stream during …