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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 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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Laws on hiring and firing are intended to protect workers from unfair behavior by employers, to counter imperfections in financial markets that limit workers' ability to insure themselves against job loss, and to preserve firm-specific human capital. But by imposing costs on firms' adaptation to...
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years in case of unfair dismissal. We show, relying on data, that this regulation entails a hike in severance payments at … just after. The layoff costs and its procedural component are evaluated thanks to the estimation of a search and matching …
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quasi-experimental setting, exploiting a reform that introduced unjust-dismissal costs in Italy for firms below 15 employees …
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