The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This … paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel …

The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood … conditional correlations between the presence of employee representation (ER) and the use of automation technologies. We find that … management. Greater automation in establishments with ER does not seem to result from more adversarial employment relationships …

Old and new EU member states still adopt quite different labor market institutions and policies: convergence has been …

. Research that pools data on old and new EU member states shows that wage coordination mechanisms can improve a country …Aside from employment protection laws, which have been converging, other labor market institutions in new and old EU … member states, such as wage bargaining coordination and labor union density, still differ considerably. These labor market …