In the last 20 years, many OECD countries implemented reforms of employment protection. These reforms did not reduce employment protection for everybody, but created long-lasting asymmetries between different categories of workers, i.e. labour market dualism.

In the current page you can find a presentation given by Tito Boeri in Seoul on December 16th, 2011 on the theme: "Reducing Youth Unemployement and Dualism".