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Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009

Muravyev, Alexander - 2010

This paper presents and discusses new data on employment protection legislation (EPL) in the successor states of the former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II) for assessing the strictness of national labor laws...

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Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2009

According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be able to switch jobs easily. This would generate a trade-off between job opportunities and job stability. This paper...

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Labour Market Regulation in the Eu-15 : Causes and Consequences - a Survey

Siebert, Stanley - 2006

Why should floors be set under wages and working conditions by labour market regulations? This paper finds that efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained in terms of the choices of the employed semi- and...

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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012

), the tax wedge, the unemployment benefit level, unemployment benefit duration and union density, are assembled at the IZA … size of the informal economy. There is also evidence that a larger tax wedge increases informality. The tax wedge … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality …

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The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure

Heywood, John S. - 2018

This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...

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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries Since 1960

Campos, Nauro - 2012

This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...

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Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Marinescu, Ioana; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021

Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions, including the prevalence of labor rights violations. We construct novel measures of labor violation rates using data from federal agencies. Within local industries over time, a 10%...

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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia : Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. - 2011

Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full...

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Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide

Guillaud, Elvire - 2013

barrier and demand deregulation. Similar divides are expected for unemployment benefits: as insiders and outsiders have … diverging unemployment risks, they should demand different levels of protection.Although these views are influential in the …

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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Dräger, Vanessa - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...

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