Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other …

insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms … that part-time employment played a decisive role in the post-2003 improvement of the German labor market. …

Unemployment in Europe? Concepts and Measurement in the European Community Household Panel -- Workers and Labour Market Outcomes of … Informal Jobs in Formal Establishments -- The Rigidity of Labour Informality in Peru: The Need for a Paradigm Switch -- (In … and Demographic Employment Patterns -- Equilibrium Unemployment and the Duration of Unemployment Benefits -- Social …

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … power. A rise in the share of immigrant workers leads to the creation of additional jobs, but also more job competition. The …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the … reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to … a substantially weaker labour market attachment for females and the foreign born than suggested by conventional …