-country reform database on labour market reforms with matched firmbank data for nine euro area countries over the period 1999 to 2013 …

propose a reform that is explicitly guided by economic principles. -- flexicurity ; employment protection ; unemployment …The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which … flexibility with that of security for workers. Rather than proposing a reform on the basis of existing institutions abroad, we …

specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …

accept a less demanding traditional job. Unemployment arises from job separation in the declining sector and difficulties in …) a wage subsidy to re-employed workers; (iii) unemployment insurance; (iv) moderate job protection; and (v) active labor …