Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate … increase in large retail chains’ concentration it induced, slowed down employment growth in France. …

assume that as competition increases industries adjust their employment to a desired level which is both industry and time … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …

Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor … laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection … or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce registered sector employment and output. These laws do no seem to …

countries. The paper aims to estimate the strictness of employment protection regulation, one of the most relevant aspects of … the average of EU countries, individual and collective dismissals are relatively heavily and temporary forms of employment … flexibility of formal legislation. The employment protection legislation seems not to have influenced the level of unemployment in …

market reform was launched in Estonia in 2009. The main idea of the New Employment contract was that the termination of … employment relations became less expensive for employers. Although empirical evidence show that the Employment Contracts Act …