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Table 2 Employment protection legislation reforms of specific aspects (% of total)

From: Reforming an insider-outsider labor market: the Spanish experience

 

Period

Years with

Flexibility

Structural

Complete

Discrete

  

reform

increasing

   

France

1982-2007

56

68

32

18

44

Germany

1985-2007

50

72

39

22

36

Italy

1982-2007

56

68

32

18

44

Average:

 

54

69

35

19

41

Spain

1980-2007

48

61

24

21

29

Versus

  

Decreasing

Marginal

Two-tier

Incremental

  1. Source: Own computations with Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti–IZA Social Reforms Database (http://www.frdb.org), see Boeri (2011).