This paper provides a critical review of the recent empirical evidence on the links between
regulations affecting the hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity …

This article reviews the empirical literature on the scarring effects of unemployment, by first
presenting an overview of empirical evidence relating to the impact of unemployment spells …

This paper analyzes those economic and social consequences of job loss which contribute
to exclusion from society, based on German linked survey and administrative data. In order …

In this novel introduction to modern microeconomic theory, Samuel Bowles returns to the
classical economists' interest in the wealth and poverty of nations and people, the workings …

The African Economic Outlook is the only annual report that monitors in detail the economic
performance of 53 individual countries on the continent, using a strictly comparable …

This article uses panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and
the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for a comparative analysis of workers' …

The idea the boundaryless career has recently permeated the careers literature. However,
critics have claimed that the concept is fuzzy and difficult to operationalize. Moreover, one of …

The analysis of intergenerational mobility has primarily used measures of social position that
are functions of an individual's occupation. Occupation-based models of social mobility …

The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor, Journal of Political Economy, 98 (1),
169–92, 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by …

The article examines whether, through supporting workers' search for adequate
reemployment, the decommodification achieved by welfare state transfers reduces the …