optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance of several conflicting effects, it seems clear that a reform … should be accompanied by an expansionary macroeconomic policy. This makes structural reform more problematic in the context …

active labor market policies. The paper provides an overview of reform patterns and tries to assess whether and to what …

reform trajectories in a diverse group of European countries that are characterised by a high share of temporary employment … two preceding decades - or based on dualisation or insider-outsider theory. The reform trajectories are characterised by …

In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid … firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums in a manner consistent with the reform, in particular those … overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role …

competitiveness and in the exports/production ratio occurs before the implementation of the labour market reform, and this comes with … both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The implementation of the reform reduces unemployment, but also …

last years. The paper summarizes major reform dynamics in Bismarckian welfare states which had adopted a strategy of labor …

moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and … allowed them to be transformational enough. -- temporary contracts ; dualism ; labor market reform ; political economy ; Great …