Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39054 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3140
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central Europe follow more interventionist policies than Canada, the UK and the US. Vulnerability to external market forces and ethnic homogeneity may explain such differences. While the interventionist model appears to reduce wage inequality and raise job security for incumbent workers, it also often relegates new entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) and the less skilled to temporary jobs or unemployment.
Subjects: 
labor market flexibility
JEL: 
J08
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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