Valerio Di Tommaso
- 17 March 2022
- WORKING PAPER SERIES - No. 2657Details
- Abstract
- We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between 1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates based on local projections find negative short-run effects of liberalising reforms on wages, while the employment effects of reforms differ markedly across age groups and partly depend on the state of the economy.
- JEL Code
- J08 : Labor and Demographic Economics→General→Labor Economics Policies
O43 : Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth→Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity→Institutions and Growth