We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between … 1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment … protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates based on local projections find negative short-run effects of …

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in …, including labor market segmentation. This particularly concerns reforms in: (1) employment protection, i.e. dismissal protection … and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of …

2013. While we find that labour market reforms are overall effective in increasing employment, restricted access to bank …We explore the interaction between labour market reforms and financial frictions. Our study combines a new cross …-country reform database on labour market reforms with matched firm-bank data for nine euro area countries over the period 1999 to …

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in …, including labor market segmentation. This particularly concerns reforms in: (1) employment protection, i.e. dismissal protection … and restrictions on fixed-term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of …

question of the role played by labour market institutions (such as employment protection legislation and fixed-term employment …).The global economic crisis has influenced the situation in the labour markets of OECD countries, causing declines in employment … and increases in unemployment. Changes in the level of employment in individual countries varied. Between 2007 …

. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … mobility induce significant resource misallocation. Employment protection is not particularly stringent, but the labour market …Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the …