The health crisis of 2020 has highlighted the occupational risk associated with COVID-19. Eurostat launched several surveys on the possibility of recognising the occupational nature of COVID-19, and its legal status with the recognition. This information allowed presenting the national...

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions in explaining developments of shadow economies in European countries. We use several alternative measures of the shadow sector, and we examine effects of labor institutions on shadow sector in two specific regions: new and old European...

This paper examines how trade liberalization-induced labor demand shocks affect wages and non-wage working conditions. Using exogenous trade shocks from EU enlargement and worker-level data, we find that export liberalization increases temporary contracts and atypical work schedules,...