-country variation in the rigidity of employment protection legislation. However, the supporting evidence is largely confined to levels … introduces a new index capturing the rigidity of employment protection legislation (LAMRIG) for an unbalanced panel of more than … rigidity do not systematically affect economic growth but do lower income inequality. -- employment protection legislation …

This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection forregular workers and how it … of sectoral employment to largejob protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the economy at the …

implementation of four strategies: First, investive social transfers, in particular by establishing a European Fund for Employment …

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 …

It is commonly argued that labor market institutions such as employment protection worsen an economy's performance and … negative correlation between employment protection and growth. We show in a model with step-by-step innovations that whether … employment protection decreases incentives to innovate and thus productivity growth depends on the degree of product market …

We have modeled the employment/population ratio in the largest developed countries. Our results show that the evolution … of the employment rate since 1970 can be predicted with a high accuracy by a linear dependence on the logarithm of real … units. Statistically, the link between measured and predicted rate of employment is characterized by the coefficient of …