necessarily increasing general unemployment. However, recent evidence from transition and emerging economies shows that employment … protection legislation tends to raise unemployment among disadvantaged groups, particularly youth, and may increase informal work …

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …

In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment … can unambiguously increase unemployment. Interestingly, I find that tightening the restrictions on redundancies and …

sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency …

), the tax wedge, the unemployment benefit level, unemployment benefit duration and union density, are assembled at the IZA … size of the informal economy. There is also evidence that a larger tax wedge increases informality. The tax wedge … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality. …

developing countries advance their development objectives, even where enforcement capacity is weak and informality is pervasive. …

disemployment effects. Regions with weaker enforcement had no employment losses but substantial increases in informality. All … effects are concentrated on unskilled workers, with no effects on skilled workers. The results indicate that informality acts …