Most employment-law rights are mandatory. Individual workers cannot decline the protections the law gives them. For … individuals cannot. Section IV documents the large degree to which current employment law already has this feature of mandatory …

Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver … constructed dataset of major reforms to employment protection legislation for regular contracts. We apply the local projection …

We analyse the role that the liberalisation of temporary contracts plays in labour share in some EU countries. The … of temporary contracts negatively affect the labour share, likely because they lower employees' average compensations. We … hypothesize that these labour reforms, which lead to enduring skill deficits and job instability, have influenced the functional …

Unemployment today is much higher in Europe than in the USA. This, however, was not always the case. From the 1960s … until the first half of the 1970s, unemployment in continental Europe was lower than in the USA. This was the time of the … vaunted “unemployment miracle” in Europe. These circumstances changed starting in the second half of the 1970s …

result is generally that work disability is lower and employment is higher. Furthermore, measures of employment protection … across the different countries suggest that increased employment protection reduces reentry into the labor force and hence is … a major factor explaining employment differences in the pre-retirement years …