analysis suggests that this cost-shifting policy implied significant positive e ects on employment and aggregate output …

This paper examines the incidence of involuntary job loss and its impact on the employment and earnings of affected … workers, using data from the Survey of Families, Incomes and Employment (SoFIE) for the 2002-09 period. It focusses on … employees who had been working in their job for at least one year before the job loss. The impact of displacement on employment …

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 …

-displacement wage. Using rich and accurate data on workers’ employment patterns before and after displacement, we compare the earnings … and employment outcomes of displaced workers who entered transfer companies with those that did not. Workers can choose … and IV estimates indicate that the use of a transfer company has a positive and significant effect on employment rates …

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 … unemployment ; firms' entry and exit ; employment volatility …

employment prospects are particularly bad. We evaluate its impact on layoff (firing) as well as on hiring, taking advantage of …. -- experience rating ; employment protection ; older workers ; firing ; hiring …