discriminate with respect to employment against a person who has filed bankruptcy. In 1984, Congress extended this prohibition to … employment against a person who has filed bankruptcy. Under the law as it currently exists, private employers can refuse to hire … a person who has filed bankruptcy solely because that person has filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, employers have …

The Chapter 7 bankruptcy code was motivated by the notion of a "fresh start," which was justified in part by the … labor supply?" This question is explored in the context of a model with job search and bankruptcy choices. The model takes … allows direct assessment of individuals' labor supply responses given their bankruptcy decisions. We find that Chapter 7 …

We build a structural model of Chapter 13 bankruptcy that captures salient features of personal bankruptcy under … Chapter 13. We estimate our model using a novel data set that we construct from bankruptcy court dockets recorded in Delaware … 13 outcomes under the restrictions imposed by the bankruptcy law. We use the estimated model to conduct policy …

We use a linked housing transaction dataset and a personal bankruptcy dataset to study the impact of housing credit on … personal bankruptcy in Singapore. Using a difference-in-differences (DD) approach, we find that an increase in housing credit … increases the monthly instalment by 560-900 Singapore dollar, and increases the likelihood of personal bankruptcy by 0 …

failure from success in this context, and might legislators enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of personal insolvency … mandatory mediation in the personal insolvency context. It reviews the institution of mediation as a prerequisite to court …-driven personal insolvency proceedings in both longstanding systems--in France, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands--as well as more …

Insolvency law has suffer ... …

This Article analyzes and evaluates the debate concerning a bankruptcy court's ability to assert personal jurisdiction … over a foreign entity. Additionally, this Article advocates that the Bankruptcy Rules be amended to conform to the new … law in bankruptcy cases regarding personal jurisdiction is uncertain; (2) prior to the 1993 amendments to FRCP 4, some …

France as French bankruptcy law does not adequately help companies to reduce their debt.The easing of monetary policies … of bankruptcy law in order to facilitate corporate restructuring, and in the mid term, to adapt the legal rules governing … with the traditional approach of judicial interventionism of French bankruptcy law, it does not disqualify all state …

bankruptcy. The provisions of the Bankruptcy Code that were either enacted in 1978 or added over the last thirty years reflect a … trend or shift in the social, economic, and political world. The corporate protectionist provisions found in the Bankruptcy ….S. Bankruptcy Code and Bankruptcy Court case law is one area of the American legal system that provides the corporate person with …

This paper estimates the effect of Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection on post-filing financial outcomes using a new … dataset linking bankruptcy filings to credit bureau records. Our empirical strategy uses the leniency of randomly …