The effect of employment protection and product market regulation on labour market performance: Substitution or complementarity?

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 449-464

  Amable, Bruno ^a,b   Demmou, Lilas ^b   Gatti, Donatella ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b CEPREMAP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MODEL TEST; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 78951477262     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840903317367     Document Type: Article

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