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A narrative database of labour market reforms in euro area economies
Aumond, Romain; Di Tommaso, Valerio; Rünstler, Gerhard - 2022
We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between 1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates...
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European performances regarding flexicurity : the case of the new member states
Chilian, Mihaela-Nona; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Iordan, Marioara - 2010
aims, the flexicurity concept is increasingly considered and employed as a key strategic framework. Flexicurity itself may … employment, and between job and retirement. We propose a possible assessment of the perormances of the flexicurity policies by … using certain composite indicators that allow for a multidimensional appraisal of flexicurity in the EU countries, providing …
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Employment Protection Regulations and Their Impact on Employment
Pointner, Wolfgang - In: Monetary Policy & the Economy (2006) 3, pp. 44-57
Employment protection legislation (EPL) forms part of the institutional framework governing labor market allocation processes. It increases the costs enterprises incur when terminating contracts, either directly via severance payments or indirectly via procedural costs (e.g. notice periods or...
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What do labor market institutions do?
Holmlund, Bertil - 2013
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225828
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What do labor market institutions do?
Holmlund, Bertil - 2014
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231630
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What do labor market institutions do?
Holmlund, Bertil - 2013
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211384
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
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Recent Reforms of the Tax and Benefit Systems in the Framework of Flexicurity
Carone, Giuseppe - 2010
of a comprehensive strategy of labour market reforms (flexicurity) that shift the focus from protection on the job to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152544
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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...
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Reassessing labour market reforms : a critique
Junankar, Pramod N.; Jayanthakumaran, Muhunthan - 2014
This paper provides a critique of Faccini (2014) that allegedly shows that temporary contracts lead to lower unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse when we make slight alterations in the sample size or...
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