TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernal-Verdugo,Lorenzo E.
AU  - Furceri,Davide
AU  - Guillaume,Dominique M.
TI  - Labor Market Flexibility and Unemployment: New Empirical Evidence of Static and Dynamic Effects 
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1463938411 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
KW  - imf
KW  - Employment and Investment: Other
KW  - Flexibility
KW  - Labor Market Flexibility
KW  - Labor Market Institutions
KW  - Labor Market
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Iran, Islamic Republic of
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Romania
N2  - The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between labor market flexibility and unemployment outcomes. Using a panel of 97 countries from 1985 to 2008, the results of the paper suggest that improvements in labor market flexibility have a statistically and significant negative impact on unemployment outcomes (over unemployment, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment). Among the different labor market flexibility indicators analyzed, hiring and firing regulations and hiring costs are found to have the strongest effect
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