outcomes. Lower barriers to foreign trade and investment help MFP. Lower barriers to entry and less pervasive state control of … 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 …

difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …

This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor … structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as … impacts. By contrast, the long-term impact of policies coming only via the employment rate channel materialises at shorter …

. Therefore, in periods with inflation generous tax depreciation provisions do not adequately promote private investment as …

Anglo-Saxon countries have been relatively successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in …

impact on a government's decisions on how to allocate government expenditure between public consumption and investment. Using …

This paper investigates the relationship linking investment (capital stock) and structural policies. Using a panel of … with less investment (lower capital stock). The paper also sheds light on the existence of non-linear effects of product …, barriers to entrepreneurship and barriers to trade and investment) tend to amplify the negative relationships between product …