This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … data, we find a statistically significant and economically meaningful impact on female employment of this particular piece … employment. Our finding is consistent with the recent literature that points to the importance of paying particular attention to …

overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role … pay flexibility to promote employment, even during a downturn. …

. This effect is particularly strong for two components of workers' protection: worker representation laws and employment …

context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated … loosening employment protections while providing relatively generous UI benefits with strict job search requirements holds out …

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990 … mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of … wage level. This pattern is reversed for employment effects where the magnitudes are smaller. We combine this database with …. We do not detect a significant and robust association for the employment effects of foreign workers. …

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross … identifying assumption is that stricter employment protection influences worker or firm behaviour, and thereby productivity, more …

variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment …

-country variation in the rigidity of employment protection legislation. However, the supporting evidence is largely confined to levels … introduces a new index capturing the rigidity of employment protection legislation (LAMRIG) for an unbalanced panel of more than … rigidity do not systematically affect economic growth but do lower income inequality. -- employment protection legislation …