Does Employment Protection Legislation Induce Structural Unemployment? Evidence from 15 OECD Countries
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Keywords
NAIRU; natural rate; structural unemployment; employment protection legislation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J48 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Particular Labor Markets; Public Policy
- K31 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Labor Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2014-07-05 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2014-07-05 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2014-07-05 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-REG-2014-07-05 (Regulation)
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