Alternative mechanisms of labour market regulations

Product and Labour Market Regulations and Patenting Activity

A large literature has focused on labour market institutions as a reason for slow growth in Europe. How important have product market regulations been? Recent work has shown that less regulation encourages investment, increases employment and leads to faster productivity growth. Empirical work at the firm level, within individual countries, suggests that the impact may differ in important ways ...

Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed institutional features of these policies and allows for selection on observables and unobservables. We estimate t...

The Role of Economic Theory in Determining Systems of Labour Market Regulations

In recent years organisations such as the OECD, World Bank and the IMF have started to play a more active role in advocating the redesign of labour market institutions. Several similar themes can be found in all these proposals, primarily a belief in the existence of a 'natural' or 'NAIRU' rate of unemployment determined primarily by institutional arrangements such as unemployment benefits, min...

The Effects Of Afghan Immigrants On The Iranian Labour Market

Labour market policies and regulations in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico: Programmes and impacts