Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labor market reforms

By Michèle Belot, J. van Ours. 2004

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The effects of Labour Market Reforms upon Unemployment and Income Inequalities: an agent based model (2018, unknown): “The report and a series of subsequent articles (including Scarpetta, 1996; Siebert, 1997; Belot and Van Ours, 2004; Bassanini and Duval, 2006) basically argued that the roots of unemployment rest in social institutions and policies such as unions, unemployment beneﬁts and employment protection…”
Employment Regulations Through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them? (2004, unknown): “In particular, Elmeskov et al. (1998), Belot and van Ours (2000) and Nicoletti and Scarpetta (2004) suggest that stringent employment protection tend to increase structural unemployment (or reduce employment) in countries where the higher labor costs associated to employment protection are not tra”
Labor Market Flexibility and Unemployment: New Empirical Evidence of Static and Dynamic Effects (2012, background): “1 For example, Nickell (1998), Elmeskov et al. (1998) and Nunziata (2002) find robust evidence that the level and the duration of unemployment benefits increase the level of unemployment. Belot and Van Ours (2004) and Nickell (1997) find that high labor taxes tend to increase unemployment rates.”