From a strictly formal point of view, employment regulation in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (CEECs) provides an acceptable level of protection for employees. However, workers' formal rights are being violated and circumvented on a massive scale. Because the oversight system is...

In this paper, we examine the impact of the labor regulation on firm's employment. South Korea's labor reform in 2007 restricted the duration of the specific types of temporary contract — fixed term and dispatched contract — to maximum two years and required those temporary contracts to be...