taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …, nearly a million jobs in the Great Recession …

unemployment. In addition, regained competitiveness due to wage restraint and increased labour supply have boosted employment …Employment in Germany reached another all-time high in 2012, growing faster than the economy. Most labour market … successful safeguarding of jobs during the Great Recession. Another view is that the current labour force record was mainly …

, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

employers has declined since the 1980s, yet there is a commonly expressed view that long-term employment relationships are more … difficult to attain. We reconcile these observations by examining how the distribution of employment tenure has changed in … tenure has declined markedly among older men; this trend may have spurred popular perceptions that long-term employment is …

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect. Using data from the large job board … effect on job vacancies. Job seekers thus faced reduced competition for jobs, a general equilibrium effect. Calibration …