Standard economic analysis holds that labor market rigidities are harmfulfor job creation and typically increase unemployment. But many orthodoxreforms of the labor market have proved difficult to implement because ofpolitical opposition. For these reasons it is important to explain why weobserve such regulations. In this paper I outline a theory of how they may arise and why they fit together. This theory is fully developed in aforthcoming book (Saint-Paul (2000)), to which the reader is referred forfurther details
This thesis is a contribution to the field of labor economics. It investigates the effects of labor ...
The employment relationship is the construct at the heart of any industrial relations system. Most w...
Labor market rigidities are commonly believed to be a major reason for imposing trade impediments. I...
Standard economic analysis holds that labor market rigidities are harmful for job creation and typic...
The importance of the labor market is indisputable. The coun-tries ’ economic outcomes rely to a sig...
Labor markets across the world are usually characterized by a set of institutions that limit the abi...
The novelty of our book is that from the start the focus is on labor market institutions operating i...
In a perfect world, labor markets would not be regulated. Compe-tition, rather than union contracts ...
The growing role of institutions and their influence on the labour market outcomes, i.e., wage rates...
The novelty of this book is that from the start the focus is on labor market institutions operating ...
There is fairly wide agreement among economists on what con-stitutes optimal—or at least good—produc...
In this paper we offer a critical discussion about the concept of labour market rigidity in the ligh...
This paper develops a model of dual labor markets based on employers' need to motivate workers. In o...
The goal of this paper is to reconsider institutional labor economics and make a renewed case for it...
In this paper we offer a critical discussion about the concept of labour market rigidity in the ligh...
This thesis is a contribution to the field of labor economics. It investigates the effects of labor ...
The employment relationship is the construct at the heart of any industrial relations system. Most w...
Labor market rigidities are commonly believed to be a major reason for imposing trade impediments. I...
Standard economic analysis holds that labor market rigidities are harmful for job creation and typic...
The importance of the labor market is indisputable. The coun-tries ’ economic outcomes rely to a sig...
Labor markets across the world are usually characterized by a set of institutions that limit the abi...
The novelty of our book is that from the start the focus is on labor market institutions operating i...
In a perfect world, labor markets would not be regulated. Compe-tition, rather than union contracts ...
The growing role of institutions and their influence on the labour market outcomes, i.e., wage rates...
The novelty of this book is that from the start the focus is on labor market institutions operating ...
There is fairly wide agreement among economists on what con-stitutes optimal—or at least good—produc...
In this paper we offer a critical discussion about the concept of labour market rigidity in the ligh...
This paper develops a model of dual labor markets based on employers' need to motivate workers. In o...
The goal of this paper is to reconsider institutional labor economics and make a renewed case for it...
In this paper we offer a critical discussion about the concept of labour market rigidity in the ligh...
This thesis is a contribution to the field of labor economics. It investigates the effects of labor ...
The employment relationship is the construct at the heart of any industrial relations system. Most w...
Labor market rigidities are commonly believed to be a major reason for imposing trade impediments. I...