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Does job security hamper employment prospects?

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Skedinger, Per - 2018

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …

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Evaluating the impact of employment protection on firm-provided training in an RDD framework

Bolli, Thomas; Kemper, Johanna - 2017

This paper tests the hypothesis that employment protection legislation (EPL) increases the incentives of firms to train their employees. The identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits exemptions of small firms from EPL. Using firm-level data from Finland...

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Restrictions of fixed term employment contracts : evidence from a German reform

Brüll, Eduard - 2019

This paper examines the impact of legal restrictions on fixed-term contracts on employment, wages and the careers of labour market entrants. Specifically, I analyse a 2001 German reform that made it more difficult for establishments that are not subject to employment protection to hire workers...

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Outsourcing at Will : The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing

Autor, David H. - 2003

Over the past three decades, the U.S. Temporary Help Services (THS) industry grew five times more rapidly than overall employment. Contemporaneously, courts in 45 states adopted exceptions to the common law doctrine of employment at will that limited employers' discretion to terminate workers...

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Outsourcing at Will : The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing

Autor, David H. - 2003

Over the past three decades, the U.S. Temporary Help Services (THS) industry grew five times more rapidly than overall employment. Contemporaneously, courts in 46 states adopted exceptions to the common law doctrine of employment at will that limited employers' discretion to terminate workers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126189

Employment Protection, Corporate Governance, and Labor Productivity around the World

Li, Guangzhong; Fujiyama, Keishi; Wu, Cen; Zheng, Ying - 2021

Consistent with the existing evidence from a single country study, our differences-in-differences estimation finds a negative effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) provisions on labor productivity in a sample of OECD countries. Our study is distinct, however, in that we provide...

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Do firms make greater use of training and temporary employment when labor adjustment costs are high?

Pieree, Gaëlle; Scarpetta, Stefano - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-17

In this paper, we present evidence on how employers in developing and emerging economies perceive employment regulations and react to them. We use harmonized surveys of about 10,800 firms around the world, supplemented by indicators of the stringency of employment protection that summarize...

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Labor disputes and labor flows

Fraisse, Henri; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - 2011

About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003, we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present a simple theoretical...

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Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data

Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...

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Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data

Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016

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