This paper analyses the main features and determinants of labour market reforms in the EU over the period of 2000 … increased policy activity in most policy domains in a large number of EU countries, initially to cushion the impact of the … indicates that reform activism is stronger in countries with lower GDP per capita and long-standing EU membership, under …

-Saxon countries (the US and the UK), two Continental European countries (France and Germany) and two Scandinavian countries (Norway … probabilities observed in US, with mixed success in Europe. In contrast, matching shocks and job destruction shocks play a larger … role in most European countries relative to the US …

Recent dramatic declines in U.S. stock and housing markets have led to widespread speculation that shrinking retirement …

between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … employment growth across countries and time. Our primary explanatory variables to explain both the revival of EU employment …