... between expansionary and recessionary periods. It applies country-level autoregressive distributed lag models and Pooled Mean Group panel ARDL estimators to estimate short-run and long-run Okun coefficients. Labor-market rigidity is incorporated through the OECD Employment Protection Legislation index...

...Emilio Congregado; Ana Rodriguez-Santiago; Concepción Román Purpose This study aims to revisit the relationship between the stringency of employment protection legislation and entrepreneurship at the macro-level using time series data from 28 OECD countries. Design/methodology/approach...

...Patrizia Ordine; Giuseppe Rose; Gessica Vella Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of more stringent Employment Protection Legislation on employment outflows and wages of women compared to those of men. Design/methodology/approach The authors exploit the Italian labor...

...Magdalena Ulceluse; Martin Kahanec Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on self-employment in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Specifically, it investigates whether, as a result of more stringent regulations...

.... Camille Signoretto can be contacted at: camille.signoretto@univ-amu.fr Dismissals Employment protection legislation Firm database Human resources strategies Job destruction Mutually agreed termination 18 11 2014 02 07 2015 04 09 2015 22 09 2015 © Emerald Group...