Deakin, Simon; Malmberg, Jonas; Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2013
Using longitudinal data on labour law in France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the USA for the four decades after … 1970, we estimate the impact of labour regulation on unemployment and equality, using labour’s share of national income as …-run effects of legal change. We find that worker-protective labour laws in general have no consistent relationship to unemployment …