This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …

public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically … productivity unbalance across regions, is responsible for up to 40% of the unemployment gap between the North and South. Policy … experiments suggest that reducing the size of public employment reduces unemployment in lower productive regions while allowing …