on the intensive (hours per employee) and extensive (employment) margins of labor supply. We show that allowing for two … in empirical work on firing costs), the dampening effect of firing costs on employment fluctuations is strongly … understated. Further, in a quantitative exercise, we calibrate firing costs to represent the different employment protection …

-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two … growth, is found to exert a negative effect on part-time employment developments. This is consistent with firms utilising … part-time employment as a means of adjusting their labour force to economic conditions. Correspondingly, involuntary part …

increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between …