employment and unemployment. However, it can be seriously misleading to ignore the interrelated behavior of hours worked ….Work hours can be altered relatively speedily and flexibly, and this strongly relates to employment, labor productivity, and … unemployment outcomes. The hours–employment distinction is especially important in the evaluation of the performances of European …

The responses of working hours and employment levels to temporary negative demand shocks like those caused by the Great …' desired rises in working hours in times of recession also serve to modify the standard measure of unemployment. During Covid …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

A macroeconomic model can depict employment only if it includes an account of the organisation of production. Keynes … simple post-Keynesian model in which employment and productivity are allowed to be fully variable. To close the model an …

We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting … entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the nonpecuniary benefits of running a … personality traits, affect selection into self-employment. We link these two lines of inquiry. The model we estimate captures …

of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in 2016 in Northern Ireland (NI) on employment and hours. NI is the only part of the … that estimates the impacts of the NMW and NLW on employment and hours worked using difference-in-differences estimation. We … employment or hours worked in NI. …

As part of a more general process of employment reallocation from less to more productive employers, job-to-job flows …