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The development of the unemployment rate di¤ers substantially between OECD countries.In this paper we investigate to what extent these differences are related to labor market institutions.In our analysis we use data of eighteen OECD countries over the period 1960-1994 and show that the way in which institutions interact is important

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Paper provided by Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research in its series Discussion Paper with number 2001-50.

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• E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution
• J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Public Policy

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