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 … grounded in theory-namely that job protection deregulation should have larger negative effects in industries characterized by …

barriers to entry yield large increases in output and labor productivity over a five-year horizon, concomitant with a relative …

labor market frictions and endogenous producer entry. We show that it takes time for reforms to pay off, typically at least … a couple of years. This is partly because the benefits materialize through firm entry and increased hiring, both of …

We study the consequences of product and labor market reforms in a two-country model with endogenous producer entry and … as a reduction in entry costs and takes place in a non-traded sector that produces services used as input in … business cycle conditions at the time of deregulation significantly affect adjustment. A reduction of firing costs entails …

of sectoral employment to largejob protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the economy at the …