This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....

Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing...

Die bisherige Forschung zu übergreifenden Tendenzen des Wandels von Lebensverläufen ist durch unterschiedliche und teilweise ungenaue Verwendungen von Begriffen und Konzepten gekennzeichnet. Der Beitrag schlägt im Anschluss an jüngere methodische Entwicklungen ein mehrdimensionales Konzept...

The lockdown and other restrictive measures introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic recession have had a strong impact on labour markets worldwide. As far as the European Union (EU) is concerned, the accelerated fall in total employment was the 'sharpest decline ever...