various performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that … high taxes increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter …

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …