This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and institutions, and runs it on recent data featuring dramatic shocks and controversial institutional change. Theoretical insights and empirical results suggest that reforms and...

This paper characterizes the determinants and implications of private schooling in a large and detailed set of French data. Empirical models detect negative selection into private schooling on observable and unobservable ability, while State-provided education appears more suitable to students...

"Race-to-the-bottom" deregulation is to be expected when markets operate across the borders of countries that independently choose and enforce labor policies. Less obviously, in pre-crisis EMU reforms of labor market policies were uneven and related to international imbalances. That pattern is...

Als weiterer Redner beim 3. Munich Economic Summit äußerte sich Prof. Giuseppe Bertola, Universitá di Torino, zu den aus seiner Sicht notwendigen Reformen in Europa. Er unterstrich in seinem Vortrag vor allen Dingen, dass nicht nur die Arbeitsmärkte, sondern auch andere Bereiche reformiert...

This paper outlines theoretical insights regarding the motivation and effects of labor market institutions, and reviews empirical studies of relevant evidence from European and other countries’ historical experience. Institutional interference with laissez faire labor market outcomes has both...