Tracking labour market reforms in the EU Member States: an overview of reforms in 2004 based on the LABREF database

Alfonso Arpaia (), Declan Costello, Gilles Mourre and Fabiana Pierini

No 239, European Economy - Economic Papers 2008 - 2015 from Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission

Abstract: The paper examines the rationale for creating a database on labour market reforms and looks at the value-added of LABREF compared with existing datasets. In doing so, it considers recent developments in the economic literature as regards the design of labour market institutions. After a description of the coverage and structure of the database and of the information contained therein, the paper provides a summary overview of reforms enacted by EU Member States in 2004. On the base of the qualitative information in the database, the paper builds simple indicators of reform intensity and makes a tentative characterisation of the reforms strategy implemented by the Member States in 2004.

Keywords: labour market reforms; LABREF database; Labour Market Working Group; LMWG; Arpaia; Costello; Mourre; Pierini (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2005-12
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