Is deregulation necessary? The effects of employment protection on unemployment

"<span style="font-size: 11px;">Using new data, the paper examines the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on aggregate and youth unemployment in advanced OECD economies and in Central and Eastern Europe during 1980-2009. The analysis assesses both the direct and i...

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Main Author: Avdagic, Sabina
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Bratislava 2010
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19122511124919407939-is-deregulation-necessary?-The.htm
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description "<span style="font-size: 11px;">Using new data, the paper examines the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on aggregate and youth unemployment in advanced OECD economies and in Central and Eastern Europe during 1980-2009. The analysis assesses both the direct and indirect effects of EPL on levels of unemployment, as well as the short-term and long-term effects of changes in EPL on changes in unemployment. The results offer no clear support for the argument that EPL is a cause of either aggregate or youth unemployment. While 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. The only finding that appears robust concerns the interaction between EPL and the tax wedge, which suggests some scope for reform complementarity in tackling youth labour market problems. On the whole, the analysis suggests that government efforts to tackle unemployment by deregulating EPL alone may well be unwarranted."</span>
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employment security
labour law
statistics
unemployment
youth unemployment
Is deregulation necessary? The effects of employment protection on unemployment
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title Is deregulation necessary? The effects of employment protection on unemployment
topic employment security
labour law
statistics
unemployment
youth unemployment
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19122511124919407939-is-deregulation-necessary?-The.htm