evidence on the impacts of labour market reforms, which seem to have a potential to address impediments towards employment …

development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries over the 1980s and 1990s, exploiting a panel of EU countries. In the … short-run, the business cycle is found to exert a short-term negative effect on part-time employment developments, which is … other structural factors such as changes in legislation affecting part-time employment are found to be key drivers of the …

This paper studies the role of wage moderation and labour and product market regulation for employment creation. To … for the pooled group of countries. This paper shows that labour cost moderation generally helps employment creation …, notwithstanding the fact that elasticities of employment to labour costs vary across the countries and sectors analysed. It also shows …

benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the euro area from a Bayesian narrative panel VAR. The approach … activity and employment. In contrast to UB reforms, the effects of EPL reforms on employment emerge only gradually. …

1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment … liberalising reforms on wages, while the employment effects of reforms differ markedly across age groups and partly depend on the …