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Does deregulation work? Reassessing the unemployment effects of employment protection
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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:15 authored by Sabina AvdagicUsing 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.
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British Journal of Industrial RelationsISSN
0007-1080Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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1Volume
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6-26Department affiliated with
- Politics Publications
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2017-02-21First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-03-08Usage metrics
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