paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …

paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …

This paper shows that the effects of employment protection critically depend on its enforcement. For this purpose, we … capture evasion of employment protection via market exit in a setting of monopolistic competition. We find that the number of … firms entering the market depends on firing costs only in the case of imperfect enforcement of employment protection …

impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to the impact of product market regulations on employment growth …. This paper analyzes how labor and product market regulations interact to affect turnover and employment. We present a …

Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to … account for most new jobs. As a result, temporary employment increased from around 10% in the mid-eighties to more than 30% in … the early nineties. In 1997, however, the Spanish government attempted to reduce the incidence of temporary employment by …

, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …