Zero-hours contracts and labour market policy

Active Labour Market Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilisation

This paper considers the feasibility of a flexible system of active labour market policy which would adjust to the changing phases of the business cycle, and would dispense with the necessity to reinvent systems from scratch in every phase of every cycle. The proposed system would have an expenditure allocation which varied with the levels of short-term and long-term unemployment, and would all...

The Danish flexicurity labour market policy concept

The views expressed in this working paper are those of the author(s) and not necessarily represent those of the Faculty of Economics and Business – Zagreb. The paper has not undergone formal review or approval. The paper is published to bring forth comments on research in progress before it appears in final form in an academic journal or elsewhere. Abstract Objective of this paper is to analyse...

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

Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

IZA DP No. 11241 DECEMBER 2017 Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants* This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country’s population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants’ labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Surve...

Shaping earnings instability : labour market policy and institutional factors ∗

The concerns regarding the economic insecurity stemming from earnings instability have been gaining momentum in the contemporary political discourse. If earnings instability is as a proxy for risk, for risk-averse individuals, increasing earnings instability bears substantial welfare costs. Using the variance of transitory earnings estimated using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) a...