The impact of endogenous product and labour market reforms on unemployment: New evidence based on local projections
Rasmus Wiese,
Jakob de Haan and
Joao Jalles
No 2023/0296, Working Papers REM from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa
Abstract:
We examine the impact of structural reforms on unemployment in 25 OECD countries between 1970- 2020. Our local projection (LP) results suggest that labour market reforms reduce unemployment, but only after four years (for youth unemployment it takes longer for the effect to set in), while product market reforms have no statistically significant effect on unemployment. However, if we control for the endogeneity of reforms, the effect of labour market reform becomes statistically significant within a year, while product market reforms temporarily increase unemployment. We also find that labour market reforms hardly have an impact on unemployment in the euro area and that labour market reforms do not significantly affect unemployment when the economy is below trend. The effects of structural reforms on unemployment are stronger under high collective bargaining.
Keywords: unemployment; structural reforms; local projections; endogeneity of reforms; nonlinearities; collective bargaining; AIPW (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H30 J21 J65 L43 L51 O43 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10
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