labour market policies to a more active focus on job search and employment. The policy tightened eligibility for unemployment …

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic …

earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills …

the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of …

efficiently according to the familiar Nash bargaining solution, we show that central negotiations lead to a lower employment level … result counters the critique that efficient negotiations result in employment levels exceeding the competitive level …