This study explores the effects of labor and product market deregulation on employment growth. Our empirical results … framework for evaluating deregulation strategies in the presence of reform costs. Optimal deregulation takes various forms … depending on the deregulation costs, the strength of reform interactions, and the perspective of the policymaker. Unless …

grounded in theory-namely that job protection deregulation should have larger negative effects in industries characterized by …Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver … the impact of job protection deregulation in a sample of 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2015, using a newly …

the responses of sectoral employment to large job protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the … consistent with theory, and are robust to a broad range of robustness checks including an Instrumental Variable approach using …

This paper explores the macroeconomic impacts of labor and product market deregulation using a small open-economy model … product market deregulation, are good at reducing short-term costs. Finally, concerning the speed of adjustment, it is usually …

markets. Along with increasing GDP and employment, deregulation also leads to lower informality and greater product market …