We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll …, which predicts an ambiguous effect on wages: firing costs are expected to increase wages, because they increase the … for the endogeneity of the treatment status, suggest that decreased firing costs and payroll taxes have a positive overall …

We explore the role of firing costs on labor market outcomes in a search and matching framework with distinct decisions … distinct labor supply margins matters for assessing firing costs. When the intensive margin is kept fixed (as is typically done … in empirical work on firing costs), the dampening effect of firing costs on employment fluctuations is strongly …

In Italy, fixed telecommunications were liberalised 15 years ago, but the incumbent is still the dominant operator. The …'s strategies are affected by regulation. Four wholesale markets (local loop unbundling, colocation, wholesale broadband access … between the incumbent and the regulator and to assess the regulation effectiveness in preventing and discouraging …