期刊名称：Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN：1705-1436
出版年度：2009
卷号：15
出版社：York University
摘要：This paper examines labour market protections and the pattern of unemployment across the developed world since the 1960s. The researchers test the robustness of results obtained by the IMF in its April 2003 World Economic Outlook publication in which the IMF suggests weakening labour market institutions to achieve lower unemployment. The authors' tests conclude that the lack of robustness in the IMF estimates makes it misleading to use these estimates to predict unemployment effects of particular policy reforms. The authors find that bivariate scatter plot examinations show no significant relationship between unemployment and the extent of social protection, union density, or bargaining coordination. Further, the authors conclude that "the empirical case has not been made that could justify the sweeping and unconditional prescriptions for labor market deregulation which pervade much of the policy discussion."
