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"unjust dismissal" doctrine to THS employment and finds that it is substantial - explaining 20 percent of the growth of THS …
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a simple model of employment outsourcing, the primary implication of which is that firms will respond to externally … imposed firing costs by outsourcing positions requiring the least firm-specific skills rather than those with the highest … ongoing employment, led to 14 to 22 percent excess temporary help growth in adopting states. Unjust dismissal doctrines did …
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a simple model of employment outsourcing, the primary implication of which is that firms will respond to externally … imposed firing costs by outsourcing positions requiring the least firm-specific skills rather than those with the highest … ongoing employment, led to 14 to 22 percent excess temporary help growth in adopting states. Unjust dismissal doctrines did …
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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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unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only …
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This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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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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