employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline …

insurance on steady-state employment, the short-term effects of benefit reforms are not well-established. This paper contributes … to fill this gap by estimating impulse responses to benefit reform "shocks" identified for a panel of OECD countries …

and using measures of relative dismissal costs, we find that the adverse effect of job security on youth employment is …This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This … with a substantial decline in the wage employment-to-population rate of young workers. In contrast, we do not find such a …

targeting monetary policy. The results from Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) estimation suggest that empirical findings are …

limits posed by the presence of an unbalanced panel of indicators and generates multivariate forecasts of the basic …

and policy initiatives. -- Gender differentials ; Pay ; Employment …