Påverkar anställningsskyddet ungdomars situation på arbetsmarknaden i EU?

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The main focus of this essay is to analyze whether strict employment protection legislation has a negative effect on the labour market possibilities for youth in the EU or not. To empirically examine the labour market possibilities for youth, data for unemployment rates and incidence of temporary jobs are used. By doing simple correlations between the different labour market characteristics and OECD??s employment protection legislation index the effect of the latter is tested. The result is that a tendency for youth unemployment and frequency of youth with temporary employment to be higher when employment protection legislation is strict can be seen. However the negative effect of strict employment protection does not seem to be larger for youth than the rest of the population. Keywords: Employment protection...