Gilles Saint-Paul is professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, and a research fellow of CEPR, London, and IZA, Bonn. He earned his Ph.D. at MIT and then worked as a researcher at CERAS and DELTA in Paris before moving to Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, UCLA, and CEMFI in Madrid. He has served as a consultant for the IMF, the Spanish Ministry of Labour, the UK Treasury, and the Swedish Parliamentary Committee on labour market policy.

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• Introduction ; PART I. THE SUPPORT FOR LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS ; 1. The no-rent society ; 2. A less perfect world: market rents and redistributive conflict ; 3. Wage rigidity and social cohesion ; 4. Employment protection ; 5. Unemployment benefits and other measures for the unemployed ; PART II. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR MARKET REFORM ; 6. The constituency effect ; 7. The identifiability effect ; 8. Two-tier systems ; 9. Politico-economic complementarities

Gilles Saint-Paul is professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, and a research fellow of CEPR, London, and IZA, Bonn. He earned his Ph.D. at MIT and then worked as a researcher at CERAS and DELTA in Paris before moving to Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, UCLA, and CEMFI in Madrid. He has served as a consultant for the IMF, the Spanish Ministry of Labour, the UK Treasury, and the Swedish Parliamentary Committee on labour market policy.

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• Introduction ; PART I. THE SUPPORT FOR LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS ; 1. The no-rent society ; 2. A less perfect world: market rents and redistributive conflict ; 3. Wage rigidity and social cohesion ; 4. Employment protection ; 5. Unemployment benefits and other measures for the unemployed ; PART II. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR MARKET REFORM ; 6. The constituency effect ; 7. The identifiability effect ; 8. Two-tier systems ; 9. Politico-economic complementarities

Gilles Saint-Paul is professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, and a research fellow of CEPR, London, and IZA, Bonn. He earned his Ph.D. at MIT and then worked as a researcher at CERAS and DELTA in Paris before moving to Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, UCLA, and CEMFI in Madrid. He has served as a consultant for the IMF, the Spanish Ministry of Labour, the UK Treasury, and the Swedish Parliamentary Committee on labour market policy.

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• Introduction ; PART I. THE SUPPORT FOR LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS ; 1. The no-rent society ; 2. A less perfect world: market rents and redistributive conflict ; 3. Wage rigidity and social cohesion ; 4. Employment protection ; 5. Unemployment benefits and other measures for the unemployed ; PART II. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR MARKET REFORM ; 6. The constituency effect ; 7. The identifiability effect ; 8. Two-tier systems ; 9. Politico-economic complementarities