, 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 …

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 …

, which in turn, has had substantial stratification effects on employment and income opportunities of different occupations …

institutions that affect the behavior of workers and employers in imperfect labor markets. These include minimum wages, employment … protection legislation, unemployment benefits, active labor market policies, working-time regulations, family policies, equal … employment-conditional incentives. Written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the book carefully …