unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …

-liberal argument that strictness of employment protection hurts labor through increased long-term and youth unemployment rates. While … it finds no empirical basis for this orthodox standpoint it observes that long-term unemployment dampens aggregate … production which in turn aggravates unemployment problem …

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …

This paper studies the impact of an unemployment protection legislation reform - a substitution between an experience … rated tax and firing costs - on the level and structure of unemployment by skills. In this purpose, we consider a matching … free entry condition and the tax rate aimed at financing unemployment benefits results from a balanced budget constraint …