TY  - JOUR
AU  - Freeman,Richard B.
TI  - Labour Market Institutions Without Blinders: The Debate over Flexibility and Labour Market Performance
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11286
PY  - 2005
Y2  - May 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11286
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11286.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard B. Freeman
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/868-3900
Fax: 617/868-2742
E-Mail: freeman@nber.org
AB  - The debate over the influence of labour market flexibility on performance is unlikely to be settled by additional studies using aggregate data and making cross-country comparisons. While this approach holds little promise, micro-analysis of workers and firms and increased use of experimental methods represent a path forward. Steps along this path could help end the current 'lawyer's case' empiricism in which priors dominate evidence.
ER  -