Labor regulations are important determinants of resource allocation, productivity, and labor market outcomes. They can protect workers’ rights, enhance job security, and improve working conditions. However...
Between 2007 and 2017, ninety nine countries initiated reforms in labor regulations that affected World Bank Doing Business labor indicators. The most common topics for reforms are (i) procedural requirements...
The recent World development report on jobs notes that government’s role should be to set conditions for private sector job creation, and remove obstacles to creating jobs with the highest development...
This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies...
This paper analyzes recent trends in Sweden's labor market regulations in relation to comparator economies and examines the relationship between labor market regulations and outcomes. The paper finds that...
This paper presents the results of an attempt to use the combined results of the dedicated survey performed by CASE in 2007 and Polish LFS data in order to: (a) analyze the development of the shadow employment...
This note argues that many of the problems that have plagued highway privatization stem from the combined effects of special features of the highway business and the type of contracts - fixed term franchises...