variables such as productivity, wages and GDP. It also provides a detailed description of inflows into and out of unemployment … recent trends and prospects on participation, unemployment and employment rates on the one hand and labour costs on the other …

hit the European Union and its labour markets. The report focuses on how the crisis is affecting employment trends and the … functioning of the labour market, analysing the interaction with key macroeconomic variables such as productivity, wages and GDP … prospects on participation, unemployment and employment rates on the one hand and labour costs on the other. Although the report …

The aim of this chapter is to analyze the sources of earnings dispersion between trainees and nontrainees. We stress …

milieu. Using data from Annual Survey of Industries, we find that (i) the growth of regular employment is negatively skewed … while that of contract employment is positively skewed, and (ii) the nominal wage growth of regular workers is positively … both regular and contract labour to match the observed asymmetries in employment. Our model further suggests that the …