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. …

to 3.6 million by 2008. At the same time, employment increased by 1.2 million. Most theoretical and empirical analyses of … this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …

in India. It begins with a review of earlier studies that tried to infer the effects on manufacturing employment of … states that enacted excessively pro-worker amendments to the IDA have displayed poorer performance in manufacturing, do not …, pointing in a very different direction, on the actual enforcement of labour laws, labour flexibility, and industrial employment …

. Using PLFS data on employment and earnings, we estimate that nominal GVA in India’s unorganized manufacturing fell by 14 … India’s unorganized or informal manufacturing fell by 2.5 to 7.5 per cent in 2020-21, reflecting the impact of COVID-19. In … the previous eight years, the average rate of fall in employment in informal manufacturing was about 0.5 per cent per year …

We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the License Raj - a system of central …

market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in the short run … employment protection, young workers are almost twice as strongly affected as older workers. Regarding product market …

-term employment stability among those who lost their jobs early in the pandemic in contrast to the group of the longer-term unemployed … disproportionate challenges during the pandemic. They were more inclined to transition into precarious employment arrangements and … experienced lower levels of employment stability in the months following re-employment. …