(UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … a fruitful interplay between search theory and empirical work. This research has established that UI matters for labor … result of frequent failures to find noticeable employment effects despite considerable effects on wages. EPL research has …

relatively strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that …

We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies … innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms’ willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases …

the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its … dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training, productivity growth …, in particular in several countries that had very poor employment performance during the recent global economic and …

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment … EPL on employment or earnings of either men or women approaching eligibility. Considering separately incumbent workers and … non-employees we find small positive and small negative employment effects for the former and the latter groups …

Leveraging a major Italian reform enacted in June 2012 that eroded employment protection to workers on permanent …-by-event research design, which compares workers moving into nonemployment before and after the reform. Weakening employment protection … led to additional penalties in terms of lower re-hiring earnings and lower re-employment probabilities. Heterogeneous …