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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 …
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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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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 …
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We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition affects...
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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 …
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, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates …, thus allowing us to control for possible substitution effects across situations of non-employment and to check whether … variables. We build time series data to account for annual evolution of employment protection legislation (EPL), and use new …
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paper takes a closer look at the labour market consequences of the crisis for Denmark. It is found that employment …
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-unionisation, decline in standard employment and in therole of seniority) similar to the majority of advanced OECD countries. Our results …
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Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are important differences among European countries. Which are the reasons that explain these different...
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How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment … takes place. Finally, we evaluate the effect of a move to 'flexicurity' on the employment-output elasticity in each country …
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