and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross … identifying assumption is that stricter employment protection influences worker or firm behaviour, and thereby productivity, more …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

for regulation on employment protection, minimum wages or tax/benefit systems as well as active labour market policies …Labour market institutions are deemed to have a great influence on the level and structure of employment. This holds …

, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates …, thus allowing us to control for possible substitution effects across situations of non-employment and to check whether … variables. We build time series data to account for annual evolution of employment protection legislation (EPL), and use new …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …