Social Security, Labour Market and Restructuring: Current Situation and Expected Outcomes of Reforms

The Current Situation on the Labour Market and Labour Market Policy in Hungary

Interactions between Product and Labour Market Reforms.∗

Labour market reforms face very often opposition from the employed workers, because it normally reduces their wages. Also product market regulations are regularly biased towards too much benefitting the firms. As a result there remain many frictions in both the labour and product markets that hinder an optimal functioning of the economy. These issues have recently received a lot of attention in...

Labour market security in between employment and social protection

In a nutshell Flexi-curity is not only a buzz-word, but drives the policy agenda of the EU. Therefore it is important to know about what we talk when we talk about the term. What is at stake is some shift from employment protection towards social protection. In other words, some of the risk/uncertainty management linked to labour markets in an era of globalisation is to be put on broader should...

Disability and Labour Market Outcomes

Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed institutional features of these policies and allows for selection on observables and unobservables. We estimate t...