Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence

Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Baker, Dean ^a   Glyn, Andrew ^b   Howell, David R ^c   Schmitt, John ^a  

^a Center for Economic and Policy Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Deregulation; Employment; Employment protection; Labor market; Labor market institutions; Regulation; Unemployment; Unemployment benefits; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195165845.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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