,,,Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: The Failure of the Empirical Case for Deregulation

Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: The Failure of the Empirical Case for Deregulation


 

Publication Date: September 2004

Publisher: Center for Economic and Policy Research

Author(s): Dean Baker; Andrew Glyn; David Howell; John Schmitt

Research Area: Labor

Keywords: Welfare; Labor markets; Flexible wages

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This paper examines the evidence that labor market protections explain the pattern of unemployment across the developed world since the 1960s. It was published as Working Paper 2004-4 of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis of New School University.