Labor Market Flexibility and Unemployment: New Empirical Evidence of Static and Dynamic Effects

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 54 Số 2 - Trang 251-273 - 2012
Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo1, Davide Furceri2, Dominique Guillaume3
1Univ of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2International Monetary Fund and University of Palermo, Washington, DC, USA
3International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, USA

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