This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment …. The empirical results are basically consistent with an insider view of labor market institutions. Labor market … institutions tend to protect (older) employees but might harm (young) entrants. Remarkable is especially the significant and very …

Isolated effects of labor and product market institutions as well as the interaction between both aforementioned … categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between … individual labor market institutions have been widely neglected, mainly due to the infeasibility to correctly specify the model …