Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at only … resiliency. However, challenges do exist, particularly related to earnings and employment gaps among foreign and native workers …

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 …

discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring employment …

employment and unemployment. However, it can be seriously misleading to ignore the interrelated behavior of hours worked ….Work hours can be altered relatively speedily and flexibly, and this strongly relates to employment, labor productivity, and … unemployment outcomes. The hours–employment distinction is especially important in the evaluation of the performances of European …

Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these …

respect. The 2008 financial crisis had small effects on the Swedish labor market. Employment in industry declined sharply and … then remained stagnant, but employment in the service sectors has continued to grow steadily. …