Bassanini, Andrea; Nunziata, Luca; Venn, Danielle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference-in-differences" framework, which exploits...