The design of the employment protection legislation (EPL) is of a particular acuity in the European debate on the … contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U …

of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … situation is likely to prevail in the near future. This means that workers will continue to leave agriculture and seek … employment in urban areas. But the ability of the manufacturing sector to engage workers will be constrained by the capital and …

The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and … economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …

markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously been the case. It concludes that whilst the … unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups with regards to transitions into employment, post-industrial labour markets …, the study finds that there is a trend towards more precarious employment for the recently non-employed in some countries …

and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year …-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the … analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU countries with …

and thereby increase their income from employment. We find that these reforms led to an average increase in the hours … worked of lone parents of between two and five hours per week. Two and a half years following the reform, lone parents … income of between 8 and 12 percent, and an increase of between 20 and 29 percent in earnings from employment. Finally, the …