performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

unemployment rate climbed to unprecedented levels and the growth rate of productivity decreased considerably. More recent times …

ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining employment, (ii) incentives for creating employment, (iii) incentives for …, when and to what extent specific ALMPs are effective. In particular, the paper shows that ALMPs retaining employment, like … employment, like hiring subsidies, perform much better on cost-effectiveness and strengthen the outsiders' position in the labor …

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross … identifying assumption is that stricter employment protection influences worker or firm behaviour, and thereby productivity, more …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference …

and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …

for regulation on employment protection, minimum wages or tax/benefit systems as well as active labour market policies …Labour market institutions are deemed to have a great influence on the level and structure of employment. This holds …

unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …