Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Review of the Evidence

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The effects of Labour Market Reforms upon Unemployment and Income Inequalities: an agent based model (2018, unknown): “Howell et al. (2007), reviewing the empirical results on the effects of protective labour market policies on unemployment, argue that the evaluation of the effects of PLMI has been biased by a number of factors: (a) the ﬁndings were largely theory-driven, discarding a good deal of the empirical…”
Income inequality as a cause of the Great Recession?: A survey of current debates (2012, background): “1), this view has been challenged in numerous contributions (e.g. Blanchard and Katz, 1997; Fitoussi et al., 2000; Howell et al., 2007; Baccaro and Rei, 2007; Freeman, 2007; Bell and Blanchflower, 2009; Stockhammer and Klär, 2011).”
When more Flexibility Yields more Fragility: the Microfoundations of Keynesian Aggregate Unemployment (2017, background): “Particularly, Howell et al. (2007), reviewing the findings on the effects of protective labour market policies (PMLI) on unemployment, argue that the evaluation of the effects of PMLI has been biased by a number of factors: (i) the findings were largely theory driven discarding the empirical…”
Labor Market Regulations: What Do We Know About Their Impacts in Developing Countries? (2014, unknown): “Moreover, the results can be characterized as fragile in the sense that findings are often sensitive to model specification and the treatment of data (Glyn et al. 2004; Howell et al. 2007).”