In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks … benefits and product market deregulation stand out as the most prominent policy levers for unemployment reduction. All other …

hire much more workers from unemployment than large firms, and that they do so at the very beginning of an economic …. Transitions from unemployment to employment at large firms are generally found to be more (pro-)cyclical. However, this stylised …