This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … rate. Labour market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in … product and labour market deregulations, workers distinguished by age and by educational attainment are affected differently …

tradition, cultural values, social capital – factors that go beyond the standard explanation of economic theory – provide a more … satisfying interpretation. -- Youth employment ; unemployment ; social capital ; institutions …

jointness. Second, we consider the labour supply distortion on secondary earners relative to primary earners implied by the … adopting a small-reform methodology, it is possible to set out a simple analysis based on more realistic labour supply models … large marriage penalties at the bottom of the distribution driven primarily by features of the transfer system. -- Labour …