Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests … globalization and two labor market segments. While overall globalization is shown to loosen protection of the regularly employed, it … increases regulation in the segment of limited-term contracts. We find economic and political globalization to drive …

The concept of globalization refers to the growing interdependence of countries, resulting from the increasing … process are the international trade and the cross-border investment flows. Economic globalization has increased the … specialization of workers, while the companies compete in global markets. Even globalization has recently become a common topic in …