claims can be directly attributed to job displacement and other adverse shocks to employment opportunities. For men, we …

This paper studies the earnings and employment consequences of involuntary job loss in Sweden during the crisis years … that experienced the largest number of job losses. While public service employment traditionally has been perceived as … from downsizing but most went on unaffected at least considering earnings and employment. From a policy perspective this …

on firms' employment behaviour. Seniority rules exist in several countries and, like Sweden, most European countries have … a more lenient employment protection for firms below a certain size. Despite the fact that small firms represent a large … share of all firms and stand for a substantial share of total employment, there is limited knowledge of how such exemption …

Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of …? knowledge of the UIC eligibility rules. Being entitled to UIC shortens workers? employment durations. This negative effect on …

impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to the impact of product market regulations on employment growth …. This paper analyzes how labor and product market regulations interact to affect turnover and employment. We present a …

Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to … account for most new jobs. As a result, temporary employment increased from around 10% in the mid-eighties to more than 30% in … the early nineties. In 1997, however, the Spanish government attempted to reduce the incidence of temporary employment by …

, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …