Italy's restrictions on firing employee's are so bad that a bank was
prevented from firing a money launderer and it are so entrenched that
recent attempts to reform the system have led to the assasination of the
reformers. See Alan Krueger's piece
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/business/27SCEN.html
which I was alerted to by Kausfiles who has some other links, see entry
for Friday July 5 here
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067592
Alex
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Dr. Alexander Tabarrok
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The Independent Institute
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