, unemployment, hours worked and wages. It highlights differences in the response of employment and unemployment across countries and … monthly job finding and separation rates. This helps to assess whether the increase in unemployment is due to an increase of … dynamics of unemployment and employment across different periods. It provides evidence of an asymmetric response over the cycle …

in the response of employment and unemployment across countries and different socioeconomic groups. For all EU Member … helps to assess whether the increase in unemployment is due to an increase of job separation or to a decline in the job … finding rate. The paper discusses the risks of jobless growth and compares the dynamics of unemployment and employment across …

Measures aimed at reducing the tax burden on labour have been advocated to alleviate the EU unemployment problem. Most … of the analyses document a relationship between the unemployment rate and the tax burden on labour. Hence, it is not … possible to discern whether the effect on unemployment derives from labour demand, labour supply or through the wage formation …

This paper presents a selective survey of the recent literature on labour market institutions and performance and …. While the literature traditionally treats labour market institutions as exogenous, attention shifted recently towards …

This paper presents a selective survey of the recent literature on labour market institutions and offers new empirical … traditionally treats labour market institutions as exogenous, attention shifted recently towards understanding the underlying causes …

The Brief investigates the role of policy uncertainty in explaining the persistently high unemployment rate in the euro … area after the Great Recession and the different impact of uncertainty on flows into and out of unemployment. …