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Some Thoughts on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labor Market Reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
n this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262615
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Some thoughts on macroeconomic fluctuations and the timing of labor market reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
In this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414121
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Some Thoughts on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labor Market Reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2021
In this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320369
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Informality, labor regulation, and the business cycle
Leyva, Gustavo; Urrutia, Carlos - 2018
We analyze the joint impact of employment protection and informality on macroeconomic volatility and the propagation of … particular to business cycle moments for employment and informality obtained from our own calculations with the ENOE survey for … formal sector, are key to obtain a counter-cyclical informality rate. In our model both the economy without an informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165940
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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? Cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection
Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289959
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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? : cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection
Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629715
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Dräger, Vanessa - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099406
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The self-employment option in rigid labor markets : an empirical investigation
Garcia-Cabo, Joaquin; Madera, Rocio - 2019
workers’ outside options. We document the negative selection into self-employment when workers enter from unemployment, and … contract out of unemployment. These facts call for a revision of active labor market policies in place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126166
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Employment protection in dual labor markets : any amplification of macroeconomic shocks?
Lochner, Benjamin - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 24 (2024) 1, pp. 249-304
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580491
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Employment protection, employment and unemployment rates in European Union countries during the Great Recession
Ferreiro Aparicio, Jesús; Gómez, Carmen - In: Journal of economic policy reform 25 (2022) 3, pp. 240-258
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415805