France and Spain have similar labour market institutions and their unemployment rates were
both around 8% just before the Great Recession but subsequently that rate has increased to …

This survey highlights the key results of the empirical literature concerning the costs of
flexibility enhancing reforms in product and labour markets. The documented costs include …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great
Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their …

For 25 years, European governments have carried out several reforms to pull themselves
out of the Eurosclerosis of the 1980s. More than 200 reforms have been made, and about …

This paper provides a review of the existing literature on the effects of employment
protection legislation (EPL) on job allocation across industries, firms, and workers, and its …

Our goal here is to explain the strikingly different response of Spanish unemployment
relative to other European economies, in particular France, during the ongoing recession …

This survey highlights the key results of the empirical literature concerning the costs of
flexibilityenhancing reforms in product and labour markets. The documented costs include …

The French labour market is divided between workers in permanent jobs and those who
alternate fixed-term contracts with unemployment spells. Among other public policies aiming …

The aim of this work is to design a multiagent system (MAS) simulation to model the French
labor market. We departed from an economic model proposed by Cahuc and Carcillo to …

Controlling for country fixed effects, there is a positive and statistically significant relationship
between the degree of housing market regulation (HMR) and the strictness of employment …