Does Deregulation Work? Reassessing the Unemployment Effects of Employment Protection
| Autor: | Sabina Avdagic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Government Labour economics Youth unemployment Employment protection legislation Tax wedge media_common.quotation_subject Sample (statistics) General Business Management and Accounting Deregulation Argument Management of Technology and Innovation Unemployment Economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Industrial Relations. 53:6-26 |
| ISSN: | 0007-1080 |
| Popis: | Using new data, this article examines the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on aggregate and youth unemployment in advanced economies and Central and Eastern Europe during 1980–2009. The results offer no clear support for the argument that EPL is a cause of unemployment. Although EPL reaches statistical significance at conventional levels in some models, the results are sensitive to small changes in the sample or the use of alternative estimators. While the analysis suggests some scope for complementary reforms of EPL and the tax wedge in tackling youth unemployment, the findings on the whole indicate that government efforts to tackle unemployment by deregulating EPL alone may well be futile. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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