There is now substantial evidence that high employment protection leads to a sclerotic labor market, with low hiring and separation rates, and long unemployment duration. 1 While this may not lead to high unemployment| because of the opposite eects of low ows and high duration of the unemployment rate|it is likely to lead to both lower productivity and lower output.
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Blanchard et al. (2002) studied this question.
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