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September 2004, Dean Baker, Andrew Glyn, David Howell, and John Schmitt
This paper examines the evidence that labor market protections explain the pattern of unemployment across the developed world since the 1960s. It was published as Working Paper 2004-4 of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis of New School University.