Bassanini, Andrea; Nunziata, L.; Venn, Danielle - 2021
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 …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference …