A vast economic literature investigates how employment protection laws (EPL) affect employment, labor-force participation, unemployment, and other important economic outcomes. This paper challenges the widespread assumption that a unidimensional, additive index can accurately capture the...

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 of the Federal government affected the decisions of...