hours, both upward and downward than are employees. A new index of underemployment is used to show that for the UK, since … the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment … underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is …

regulations across OECD countries. We find that with firing costs of a similar size as in France, the drop in US employment during …