Massimo, Mancini; Carmine, Pappalardo - In: Politica economica - Journal of Economic Policy (PEJEP) (2006) 3, pp. 399-399
The Italian law on "unfair firing" (art. 18 of "Statuto dei Lavoratori") discriminates according to whether the firm is below or above the threshold of 15 employees. In this paper, we investigate the effects of this setting on average growth rates of small firms using a Regression Discontinuity...