on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period … movement. Little of the observed heterogeneity in the plant-level employment outcome can be explained by easily observable …. Furthermore, the role for idiosyncrasies in explaining the plant-level employment outcome becomes increasingly important in times …

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

Raising South Africa’s low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP … find much scope for improving the design of key labor market institutions—including collective bargaining and employment …