market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in the short run …This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …

, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates …, thus allowing us to control for possible substitution effects across situations of non-employment and to check whether … institutional rigidities affecting unemployment impact inactivity along the same line. To cope with common problems related to the …

Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force … of non-standard and precarious employment. Women and men have relatively equal levels of unemployment at present, but the … measures are directed mainly at alleviating the sources of male unemployment. Employment deregulation in Japan embodies varying …