Employment protection and labor market results in Europe

Ferreiro, Jesús; Gómez, Carmen

doi:10.1007/s00191-019-00656-5

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“…However, in this general context, it is important to point out that there is no consensus about the real effectiveness of labour market deregulation on employment outcomes (see among other Baker et al 2004 ; Bassanini and Duval 2006 ; O’Higgins 2012 , 1997 ; Dutt et al 2015 ; Brancaccio et al 2018 ; Arestis and González-Martínez 2015 ; Montenegro and Pages 2003 ; Ferreiro and Gomez 2019 ; Posner 2017 ).…”

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Labour Market Regulation and Youth Unemployment in the EU-28

Liotti

2021

Ital Econ J

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The rise of youth unemployment has been one of the most serious problems which policymakers have had to deal with over the last two decades. Neoclassical economic theory suggests that the deregulation (i.e. higher flexibility) of the labour market stimulates firms to hire young people and—therefore—reduces youth unemployment. The aim of this study is to empirically test the validity of this hypothesis, analysing data on youth unemployment and labour market regulation index (LMRI) for 28 European countries in the period between 2000 and 2018. The empirical results—using two different econometric techniques (time and fixed effects that allows to take into account the presence of heterogeneity of countries in the model and pooling mean group (PMG) estimator providing results about the short and long run relationship between LMRI and youth unemployment)—do not provide evidence in support of the neoclassical hypothesis. In particular, the effect of higher flexibility of the labour market is negative and statistically significant (at 1%) only when a dummy variable for the Eastern country group is included in the model. Vice-versa, the paper shows that higher economic growth and higher investment in active labour market policy represent the key variables to reduce the youth unemployment. In conclusion, the paper raises many doubts that the introduction of flexibility measures in itself can represent a useful tool to counteract the increase of youth unemployment in Europe.

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Labour Market Regulation and Youth Unemployment in the EU-28

Liotti

2021

Ital Econ J

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“…In retrospect, you can find the causes of events, moments of change. The results of Ferreiro and Gomez (2020) showed that a large effect of employment protection depends on the choice of analysed years and countries (Ferreiro & Gomez, 2020). Mattijssen and Pavlopoulos (2019) applied multichannel sequential analysis of positions and incomes in the labour market to develop types of careers, including various types of employment, permanent and temporary.…”

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Multidimensional modeling of regions by employment and socio-economic development

Salimova

Sagadeeva

2023

E3S Web of Conf.

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Employment is essential for development. Employment can increase income of people and household, reduce inequality. Employment promote economic growth and promote stability of country. We carried out a comprehensive analysis, which reflected the situation and the connection with the market of labour force (particularly population employment), the population's standard of living (particularly its income). Scientists today make efforts to study the lasting aspects, facts of employment and the state of the labour in general. An empirical distribution of the studied regions into 3 clusters was made. It is possible to obtain sufficiently high production results and, consequently, increase the population's standard of living. Cluster 1 regions are encouraged to more actively introduce new technologies and scientific developments into the production process. The regions of cluster 3 are recommended to adopt the experience of organizing the management of production processes, technological changes. How the population will live today depends on production and management, including the labour market. The research defines the directions for future research.

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“…Moreover, it could be the case that some labor market institutions (like employment protection legislation) may have played an essential and unprecedented role in determining self-employment during the recent recession, while it is also fruitful to examine the relevant regional implications (Román et al 2011a). Other studies have also stretched that the effect of labor market institutions is less examined under financial shocks and that it can vary subject to the business cycle (see Boeri and Jimeno 2016;Duval et al 2020;Ferreiro and Gomez 2020). Thus, and given those considerations, in this study we focus on a unique recessionary period (i.e., the Great Recession).…”

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Employment protection and regional self-employment rates in an economic downturn: a multilevel analysis

Filippopoulos

Fotopoulos

2023

Ann Reg Sci

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This research aims to investigate the role of employment protection in affecting the relationship between regional self-employment and unemployment during turbulent times. In doing so, data comprised of 230 regions, nested in 17 EU countries, for the 2008–2015 period were used. When accounting for individual effects, we find that an increase in regional unemployment would decrease regional self-employment, while the opposite was found true for employment protection. When accounting for the cross-level interaction between regional unemployment and national employment protection legislation, however, we find that the underlying increased labor market rigidity not only decreases regional self-employment, but it also magnifies the adverse effect of regional unemployment. Our key results thus indicate that high labor market rigidity hinders self-employment.

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Employment protection and labor market results in Europe

Cited by 11 publications

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Labour Market Regulation and Youth Unemployment in the EU-28

Labour Market Regulation and Youth Unemployment in the EU-28

Multidimensional modeling of regions by employment and socio-economic development

Employment protection and regional self-employment rates in an economic downturn: a multilevel analysis

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