This paper studies the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance using a … econometric analysis implies that institutions matter for labor market outcomes, and that deregulation of labor markets improves … their performance. The analysis also suggests several significant interactions between different institutions, which are in …

institutions ; unemployment ; transition economies …This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and … documents the evolution of labor market institutions and policies in the transition region. The data show a clear trend towards …

market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al …. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data on institutions, which cover employment protection legislation (EPL …), the tax wedge, the unemployment benefit level, unemployment benefit duration and union density, are assembled at the IZA …

market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al …. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data on institutions, which cover employment protection legislation (EPL …), the tax wedge, the unemployment benefit level, unemployment benefit duration and union density, are assembled at the IZA …

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of … market institutions, which are among candidate explanations for the very diverse trajectories of labor markets in the region …. We consider recent contributions that attempt to assess the effect of labor market institutions on labor market …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

performance of TEs, including the policy-relevant issue of complementarity of institutions. -- labor markets ; unemployment …This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of … market institutions, which are among candidate explanations for the very diverse trajectories of labor markets in the region …

performance of TEs, including the policy-relevant issue of complementarity of institutions. -- labor markets ; unemployment …This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of … market institutions, which are among candidate explanations for the very diverse trajectories of labor markets in the region …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

unemployment. Underemployment constitutes another important adjustment channel, while the evidence for informal employment is more …