Employment Protection and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies /

We build a small open economy, real business cycle model with labor market frictions to evaluate the role of employment protection in shaping business cycles in emerging economies. The model features matching frictions and an endogenous selection effect by which inefficient jobs are destroyed in rec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lama, Ruy
Other Authors: Urrutia, Carlos
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/293
Online Access:Full text available on IMF