This study explores the effects of labor and product market deregulation on employment growth. Our empirical results … employment growth, including through sizable interaction effects. Based on these findings, the paper develops a theoretical …

should be broadened to include more explicitly the objective of raising employment rates to foster potential growth. The … market adjustment, and illustrates the benefits of a two-pronged strategy. The paper also examines employment effects of …

healthy pace in 2005, driven by private consumption as well as a likely strengthening of corporate investment and employment …

unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position …

-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that …We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia. These countries simultaneously display high unemployment rates, low …