the employment performances of those countries. Moreoever, these institutions act asymmetrically along the business cycle …

impact of labour market institutions from 1960 to 1994. The main contribution of the paper is to show that labour market …. These results are consistent with the findings of a companion paper (Nickell et al., 2001) where the effects of institutions … on unemployment are examined. The model controls for macroeconomic shocks, and include the possibility of interactions …

equalization allows the divergent wage experience as well as unemployment experience of Europe and America to be explained. Europe … reduces European unemployment (which increased under factor price equalization). …