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The effect of employment protection on labor productivity

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - 2015

The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for...

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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium

Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32

The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...

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Kombilohn oder Workfare? : zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien

Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors … sind. Ein alternativer, ursachenorientierter Ansatz ist die Senkung des sozialen Leistungsniveaus durch Workfare. Eine … of a workfare strategy. The potential wages of transfer recipients, estimated on the basis of the German Socio …

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Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States

Eamets, Raul; Masso, Jaan - 2021

There is increasing pressure for the flexibility of labour markets both in current EU member states and candidate countries. The paper aims to estimate the strictness of employment protection regulation, one of the most relevant aspects of labour market flexibility, and the degree of its actual...

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Can overtime premium flexibility promote employment? : firm- and worker-level evidence from a labour law reform

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid to their workers by 50% or more. Until then, overtime premiums were set by law at a relatively high level and could not be cut unilaterally. We analyse matched...

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The macroeconomic dimension of Europe's unemployment problem

Eltis, Walter - In: Beschäftigungspolitik in Europa : Beiträge zu einer …, (pp. 29-35). 2001

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Structural change of the production process and unemployment in Germany

Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 2000

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Reforming German labor market institutions : a dual path to flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … egalitarian labor market, the number of jobs, but also their diversity has increased. -- Germany ; labor market reforms ; atypical …

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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner - 2009

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

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Labour Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries

Fialová, Kamila - 2008

This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...

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