This Working Paper critically analyses Italy's labour market reforms of 2012 (Fornero Reform). It focuses especially on a measure to cut unemployment and labour-market dualism by reducing the protection against dismissal enjoyed by permanent employees.The main argument of this paper is that...

This working paper looks at recent structural reforms of the Spanish labour market and evaluates them against the government's stated objectives to reduce unemployment.It concludes that the labour market flexibilisation approach has not helped to reduce unemployment, nor has it contributed to...

In many European and other Western countries, labour markets will continue to be reformed in order to accommodate further adjustments to economic, demographic and socio-ecological developments. Moreover, labour market institutions and other aspects of labour markets receive a lot of attention in...