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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment Across Developing Countries
Hovhannisyan, Shoghik; Montalva-Talledo, Veronica; … - 2022
formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076711
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The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure
Heywood, John S. - 2018
more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower wages in countries where stricter EPL protects workers from layoffs …-2005, particularly for wages of unskilled workers. However, we also find that where workers are well organised, they can take advantage … of EPL to secure higher wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911172
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Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
bargaining power. This paper estimates the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on workers' individual wages in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135629
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Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection
Gielen, Anne C. - 2012
higher wages. This evidence can be explained by increased mobility costs associated with higher expected risk of post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106581
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Employment Protection Legislation and Wages
Leonardi, Marco; Pica, Giovanni - 2021
labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content to this proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages … of the reform on entry wages and a decrease of the returns to tenure by around 20% in the first year and by 8% over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317171
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The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment : Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries
Cingano, Federico - 2009
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159932
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Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets : The Israeli Case
Neuman, Shoshana - 2015
Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030864
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How Stable is Labour Market Dualism? Reforms of Employment Protection in Nine European Countries
Eichhorst, Werner - 2019
Labour market segmentation currently is at the forefront of national and European policy debates. While the European Commission and the OECD try to promote what they see as more inclusive policies, academic observers remain skeptical. Particularly the dualisation literature points to stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870171
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096470
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Does Employment Protection Unprotect Workers? The Labor Market Effects of Job Reinstatements in Peru
Jiménez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2021
permanent hiring. We also find a negative association between reinstatements and real wages of 3.9 %, but placebo tests indicate … policy to increase permanent hiring and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314981