Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. We … examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a benchmark aggregate model of time allocation as well as … in a standard dynamic model of entry and exit. We find that product market regulations affect time devoted to market work …

Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and … gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. The model explains a substantial fraction of the differences in … hours by taxes, which reduce market hours in favor of leisure and home production, and by subsidized care, which frees …

-wage gaps. Gender-equitable macroeconomic and development policies are thus required, including financial market regulation …Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious … of East Asia states, which recognized their position as late industrializers, relied on a managed-market approach with …

below a certain threshold. We ask if the unemployed who start marginal jobs face better labour market outcomes than those … who do not work. A priori it is not clear if those who work in marginal employment improve their labour market status, e … of marginal employment on their labour market outcomes, by means of propensity score matching. Our results suggest that …

-1990. Much of that time was gradually transferred to the labour market, but no evidence can be found for an increase in leisure … constituted an impediment to labour market entry. Increased returns to market work induced women who did not face this restriction … to allocate more time to the labour market from the mid-1940s. A set of new formal and informal institutions associated …

the private sector, and a unification of the different labour market programmes. …

labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …