Spain's structural reforms, implemented around 2012, have arguably contributed to a faster and stronger economic recovery. In particular, there is strong evidence that the 2012 labor market reforms increased wage flexibility, which helped the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create...

"This book examines the growth of careers outside a traditional standard employment pattern and how those in "atypical jobs" will fare in retirement, analyzing how the interplay between labor market reforms/trends and pension reforms will affect income security in old age during future decades"--

Structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs is designed to support structural reforms by countries borrowing from the IMF. Taking stock of program conditions and their implementation, this paper finds that conditionality focuses on fiscal, monetary and financial issues-areas where IMF...

Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view,...

After a short description of the German Council of Economic Experts' proposals for labor market reforms we begin by a discussion of the expected consequences of a policy following these proposals. There, we consider not only the direct impact on the labor market, but also social side effects...