impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures … is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the …

This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data … from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because … more exposed to external shocks. We assess the conditional employment volatility of firms with foreign and domestic owners …

develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …

This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted … discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the … scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is …

. In this paper, we study transitions out of work for 26 EU countries over the period 2004-2009 in order to investigate the … determinants of retirement based on the Eurostat Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Applying standard survivor … between the average euro area and EU non-euro area countries. Moreover, we find that shifts into retirement have increased …

2013. While we find that labour market reforms are overall effective in increasing employment, restricted access to bank … credit can undo up to half of long-term employment gains at the firm-level. Entrepreneurs without sufficient access to credit … cannot reap the full benefits of more flexible employment regulation …

adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees …. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at least one employee, indivisibility becomes an important source of … explains around 50% of the stickiness of employment, adjustment costs explain the other 50% …

investigate how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the … banks. Yet, findings also indicate that employment consequences of credit shortages have been essentially detrimental for …