
Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2012/65
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Davide Furceri , Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo , and Dominique Guillaume
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463938420.001
ISBN: 9781463938420
Keywords: Labor market, flexibility, reforms, labor market institutions, labor market flexibility, labor market policies, Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment and Investment: Other
Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium...