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 …

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …

-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 …

enough to raise employment rates, and lackluster real earnings along with still-rampant labor market informality suggest that …

increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between …

study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes. Using quarterly information on wages and employment in …, pushing the low skilled into unemployment. This latter hypothesis is confirmed by analyzing the effects of changes in labor … supply on unemployment. -- Immigration ; labor supply shocks ; border controls …