Europe and globally. Latvia's adjustment and recovery from the 2008 economic crisis represents "a rare case study", which … the years 2002 to 2012. We show that with flexible labor markets, weak unions and relatively low employment protection …, adjustment takes place predominantly at the extensive margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to …

Europe and globally. Latvia's adjustment and recovery from the 2008 economic crisis represents "a rare case study", which … the years 2002 to 2012. We show that with flexible labor markets, weak unions and relatively low employment protection …, adjustment takes place predominantly at the extensive margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in …-declared and many workers enter employment relationships that do not provide any or only partial protection, work with little or no … other regulations can reduce informal employment, to what extent informality occurs as a result of job separations, how …