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Dismissal Laws in Australia : Reforms and Enforcement by Labour Courts

Freyens, Benoit - 2015

The paper analyses the arbitration of dismissal disputes by Australian labour courts over a 15 years' time span … characterized by two major legal reforms to unfair dismissal statutes. We isolate two channels by which we think the social values … dismissal cases. We also test for and address the Priest-Klein selection effect, which is known to potentially invalidate …

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Great Expectations : Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

MacLeod, William Bentley - 2011

This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the law suggests that less employment protection...

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Flexible Wages and the Costs of Job Displacement

Fernández Guerrico, Sofía; Tojerow, Ilan - 2022

This paper investigates whether flexible pay increases the wage costs of job displacement. We use quasi-exogenous variation in the timing of job loss due to mass layoffs spanning over an institutional reform that restricted single-employer bargaining, the Belgian Wage Norm in 1996. We find that...

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The Effect of Job Displacement on Subjective Well-Being

Song, Younghwan - 2017

Using matched data drawn from the 2010 and 2012 Displaced Workers Supplements of the Current Population Surveys and the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the effect of job displacement on various measures of subjective well-being. The results...

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members … show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …

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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …

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Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany

Grund, Christian - 2013

We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the firm and voluntary quits by employees. Based on representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find a negative relationship between works councils and both kinds...

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Unfairness at Work : Well-Being and Quits

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018

We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own...

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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?

Antoni, Manfred; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021

Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing …

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The Mental Cost of Job Loss : Assessing the Impact on Young Adults in Vietnam

Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022

We exploit the extensive job loss associated with the devastating fourth wave of COVID-19 in Vietnam to examine the impact of unemployment on young people's experiences of anxiety and depression. Using data from a longitudinal study with individual and survey-wave fixed effects, we show that job...

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