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Employment protection legislation, labor courts, and effective firing costs

Jimeno, Juan F.; Martínez-Matute, Marta; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 2, pp. 1-26

In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding severance payments mandated by the employment protection legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of...

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Die Nutzung insolvenzrechtlicher Sanierungswege durch kleine und mittlere Unternehmen: Das Beispiel der Eigenverwaltung

Kranzusch, Peter; Icks, Annette - 2018

Sanierungswege, z. B. das eigenverwaltete Schutzschirmverfahren vor der Insolvenz und die Eigenverwaltung während des …With the introduction of the ESUG law, German insolvency legislation was reformed in 2012. It offers new proceedings … for enterprise re-organisation, both before insolvency and between the application for insolvency and the start of the …

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Labour market institutions and their effect on labour market performance in the new EU member countries

Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondřej - 2008

performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …

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Litigation and settlement under court error

Ackermann, Philipp - 2010

Settlements are often considered to be welfare-enhancing because they save time and litigation costs. In the presence of court error, however, this conclusion may be wrong. Court decisions create positive externalities for future litigants which will not occur if a dispute is settled out of...

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Duo cum faciunt idem, non est idem: Evidence from Austrian pain and suffering verdicts

Leiter, Andrea; Thöni, Magdalena; Winner, Hannes - 2011

We analyze the pricing of pain and suffering and, in particular, whether the corresponding compensations are affected by a court's approach to value such damages. For this purpose, we use data on pain and suffering verdicts in Austria, where courts are generally free to choose between a per diem...

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Determinants of Noneconomic Damages in Medical Malpractice Settlements and Litigations: Evidence from Texas since 1988

Zhou, Jun - 2010

There have long been claims that compensations for noneconomic damages are random because tort law does not provide clear guidance regarding these compensations. I investigate, in both settled and tried medical malpractice cases, whether noneconomic damage payments are arbitrary and what...

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Non-economic damages in medical malpractice appeals: Does the jurisdiction make a difference?

Amaral-Garcia, Sofia - 2015

This article assesses predictors of payouts and non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases decided by the Spanish Supreme Court from 2006 until 2010. Medical malpractice cases can be judged in administrative or civil courts, and this distinction heavily relies on the type of hospital...

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Are pain and suffering awards (un-)predictable? Evidence from Germany

Flatscher-Thöni, Magdalena; Leiter, Andrea M.; Winner, … - 2015

This paper assesses the widely held belief that damages for pain and suffering are random or arbitrary. We empirically analyze the differential impact of a plaintiff's personal characteristics, pain-specific circumstances and a lawsuit's procedural features on such payments. Relying on a dataset...

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Acesso à justiça do trabalho: Antes e depois da reforma trabalhista

Cunha, Alexandre dos Santos; Da Silva, Paulo Eduardo Alves - 2022

Federal Statute no 13.147, enacted by National Congress in July 13th, 2017, altered extensively the Brazilian Labour Code. Several of the alterations were justified under the need to solve legal certainty issues, that allegedly caused excessive labour litigation. In the same direction, changes...

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The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights: Introduction

Nissen, Aleydis - In: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy, (pp. 1-20). 2022

Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of...

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