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 …

is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 …

importance for structural and macroeconomic policy, for instance, in increasing the employment of both people and hours worked …

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 …