Job Protection Deregulation in Good and Bad Times /

This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection for regular workers and how it varies with prevailing business cycle conditions. We apply a local projection method to a newly constructed 'narrative' dataset of major regular job protection reforms coverin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duval, Romain
Other Authors: Furceri, Davide, Jalles, Joao Tovar
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/277
Online Access:Full text available on IMF