Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Government policies that impose restrictions on the size of large establishments or firms, or
promote small ones, are widespread across countries. In this paper, we develop a …

Most of the recent literature on the effects of labor market institutions on wages and
employment draws on reforms used as natural experiments. This is a significant …

Employment protection systems are widely believed to generate distortions in firms' hiring
and firing decisions. However, much less is known about the impact of these regulations on …

Conventional tests of the regression discontinuity design's identifying restrictions can
perform poorly when the running variable is discrete. This paper proposes a test for …

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 …

What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?" Developments in Research
Methods and their Application"(volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways …

This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of
the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform …

Employment protection legislation (EPL) is not enforced uniformly across the board. There
are a number of exemptions to the coverage of these provisions: firms below a given …

Current theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are
ambiguous. In this paper, I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor …