This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment …. The empirical results are basically consistent with an insider view of labor market institutions. Labor market … institutions tend to protect (older) employees but might harm (young) entrants. Remarkable is especially the significant and very …

Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for … of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for … of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

investigation, it is shown that electronic skills induce more cybercrime under weak institutions where the rules of law do not … institutions suggests that institutional factors are crucial to allocating human capital between productive and criminal activities …

applying an instrumental variable estimation approach. -- Unemployment ; institutions ; labor and product markets ; model …Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however … indicators are identified as significant determinants of unemployment. Endogeneity due to reverse causality is also considered by …

for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions. Results support the model in that net-FDI is … robustly associated with lower rates of aggregate unemployment. -- FDI ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions … global financial markets enables capital owners to invest abroad, thereby fostering unemployment at the extensive industry …

mainly labour market institutions explain unemployment, others argue that this correlation is not robust. One explanation for … these contradictory results is that labour market institutions affect unemployment in varying labour market regimes … market institutions show different impacts on unemployment depending on the general institutional arrangement. Support for …

facilitates the analysis of skill-specific institutional changes. A government can influence wages and unemployment of the low …-skilled by manipulating labor market institutions concerning high-skill workers only. One-sided interventions affect all workers … at home and abroad irrespective of their level of skill. -- FDI ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market …

Isolated effects of labor and product market institutions as well as the interaction between both aforementioned … categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between … individual labor market institutions have been widely neglected, mainly due to the infeasibility to correctly specify the model …