Hijzen, Alexander; Mondauto, Leopoldo; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the impact of employment protection (EP) on the composition of the workforce and worker turnover using a unique firm-level dataset for Italy. The impact of employment protection is analyzed by means of a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits the variation in EP...