"Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies …: first, we provide an overview of the aggregate indicators of core labor market institutions such as employment protection …

explained? The paper claims that changes in labour market institutions such as unemployment benefits, active labour market … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing … or decreasing unemployment benefit generosity, both mostly addressing the margins of the labour market, i.e. 'outsiders …