Search Results - subject_exact:"Employment protection"

Striking a balance : enforcement of job security laws and firm performance India's manufacturing

Sofi, Irfan Ahmad; Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2026

This study examines the relationship between employment protection legislation (EPL), measured through pro-worker judicial outcomes (PWCJ), and firm performance in India's formal manufacturing sector. We construct a novel state-level indicator of EPL based on 1,471 high court judgments covering...

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Job tenure jigsaw : why is employment protection bad for labor market fluidity?

Katagiri, Mitsuru - 2026

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Does tightening the duration of temporary contracts cost jobs? : evidence from Germany

Brüll, Eduard - 2026

Many countries limit how long a worker may be kept on a temporary contract, yet little is known about how firms and workers respond when this maximum duration is tightened. Does a shorter cap simply displace temporary jobs, or does it push firms towards permanent hiring? I provide causal...

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Does tightening the duration of temporary contracts cost jobs? Evidence from Germany

Brüll, Eduard - 2026

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The effect of employment protection on firms' worker selectio

Butschek, Sebastian; Sauermann, Jan - 2025

To estimate the causal eﬀect of employment protection on ﬁrms’ worker selection, we study apolicychangethatreduced dismissalcosts fortheemployersof overatenth of Sweden’s workforce. Our diﬀerence-in-diﬀerences analysis of ﬁrms’ hiring uses individual ability mea-sures including...

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Crisis credit, employment protection, indebtedness, and risk

Huneeus, Federico; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Larraín, Mauricio - 2025

This paper studies how credit guarantee and employment protection programs interact in assisting firms during crises times. The paper analyzes how these government programs influence credit allocation, indebtedness, and risk at both the micro and macro levels. The programs provide different...

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Crisis credit, employment protection, indebtedness, and risk

Huneeus, Federico; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Larraín, Mauricio - 2024

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The classification of platform workers in the Australian context

Minas, John; French, Ben - 2025

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Employment protection and stock price crash risk : evidence from China's introduction of the labor contract law

Zhuo, Qianru; Lin, Yuanfeng; Qiu, Yajie; Shen, Zhe; … - 2024

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Does weaker employment protection lower the cost of job loss?

Francesconi, Marco; Sonedda, Daniela - 2025

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Does weaker employment protection lower the cost of job loss?

Francesconi, Marco; Sonedda, Daniela - 2024

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Does weaker employment protection lower the cost of job loss?

Francesconi, Marco; Sonedda, Daniela - 2024

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Does weaker employment protection lower the cost of job loss?

Francesconi, Marco; Sonedda, Daniela - 2024

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Labor market externalities of pre-retirement employment protection

Chrostek, Paweł; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2024

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...

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Labor market externalities of pre-retirement employment protection

Chrostek, Pawel; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2024

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Labour market institutions : the problem of definitions and measurement

Sordyl, Marta - 2024

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Unsettled: job insecurity reduces home-ownership

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2024 - This version: May 2024

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Unsettled : job insecurity reduces home-ownership

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2024

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Unsettled: job insecurity reduces homeownership

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2024

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Employment protection in dual labor markets : any amplification of macroeconomic shocks?

Lochner, Benjamin - 2024

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Employment protection in dual labor markets: Any amplification of macroeconomic shocks?

Lochner, Benjamin - 2014

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Employment protection in dual labor markets : any amplification of macroeconomic shocks?

Lochner, Benjamin - 2014

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Employment protection in dual labor markets: Any amplification of macroeconomic shocks?

Lochner, Benjamin - 2014

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The impact of labour policy on productivity and wages in South Africa : a review of the literature

Mlatsheni, Cecil - 2026

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Outsourcing policy and worker outcomes : causal evidence from a Mexican ban

Estefan, Alejandro; Gerhard, Roberto; Kaboski, Joshep P.; … - 2026

Using Mexican economic census data from 1994 to 2019, we document a rising trend in domestic outsourcing, particularly among large firms, and a negative association between outsourcing and labor compensation, including profit sharing and social security. We leverage higher-frequency data from a...

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Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes : Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban

Estefan, Alejandro; Gerhard, Roberto; Kaboski, Joseph Paul - 2024

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Outsourcing policy and worker outcomes : causal evidence from a Mexican ban

Estefan, Alejandro; Gerhard, Roberto; Kaboski, Joseph Paul - 2024

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Rights and wrongs : a workplace rights information experiment among temporary migrants

Teufel, Julia; Beeder, Monica - 2026

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Employment protection and employment in Europe : a sectoral analysis

Ferreiro Aparicio, Jesús; Gómez, Carmen - 2026

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Recent trends in employment protection legislation : Tackling dualism by harmonising and strengthening regulations

2026

Regulations affecting the hiring and dismissal of workers – i.e. employment protection legislation (EPL) – affects the ability of companies to adapt to fluctuation in demand and structural changes as well as people's job security and hiring opportunities. This policy brief presents recent...

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Employment protection and collective bargaining reforms after austerity : divergent paths in Portugal and Spain

Branco, Rui Miguel C.; Marques, Paulo; Molina, Oscar; … - 2026

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Decent work and the safety of journalists

2026

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Gender disparities in earnings mobility : the role of employment protection legislation during reproductive years in Europe

Bárcena Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2026

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Graying and staying on the job : the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers

Morris, Todd; Dostie, Benoît - 2023

We study the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers, exploiting recent bans on mandatory retirement across Canadian provinces. Using linked employer- employee tax data, we show that the bans cause large and similar reductions in job separation rates and retirement...

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Graying and staying on the job : the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers

Morris, Todd; Dostie, Benoît - 2023

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Graying and staying on the job : the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers

Morris, Todd; Dostie, Benoît - 2023

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Labor market regulation and firm adjustments in skill demand

Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023

We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced firing costs for permanent employees and tightened temporary contracts' regulation to increase job...

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The impact of restricting fixed-term contracts on labor and skill demand

Grasso, Giuseppe; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023

This paper examines the impact of increasing the relative cost of fixed-term contracts on labor demand as well as the demand for standard measures of human capital and specific skill requirements. We evaluate a 2018 Italian labor law reform that raised the cost of fixed-term contracts while...

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The impact of restricting fixed-term contracts on labor and skill demand

Grasso, Giuseppe; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023

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Employment protection, job insecurity, and job mobility

Bertoni, Marco; Chinetti, Simone; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023

This study leverages the Italian Jobs Act reform as a natural experiment to examine the impact of reduced employment protection on job insecurity and job mobility. The reform significantly lowered protection for open-ended contract workers in large firms hired after March 7, 2015, and introduced...

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Graying and staying on the job : the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers

Morries, Todd; Dostie, Benoît - 2023

We study the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers, exploiting recent bans on mandatory retirement across Canadian provinces. Using linked employeremployee tax data, we show that the bans cause large and similar reductions in job separation rates and retirement hazards...

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Crisis Credit, Employment Protection, Indebtedness, and Risk

Huneeus, Federico; Kaboski, Joseph P.; Larrain, Mauricio; … - 2025

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The effect of employment protection on firms' worker selectio

Butschek, Sebastian; Sauermann, Jan - 2025

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Worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

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Worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025 - Original version: March 2025, this version: October 2025

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Worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

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Worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025 - Updated 28 October 2025

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Real wages and productivity : a lesson from Italy, 1980-2023

Salvati, Luigi; Tridico, Pasquale - 2025

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Understanding working conditions of fishers in Indonesia : evidence from the 2024 Survey on Decent Work in Marine Fishing

2025

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The value of worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) for use in empirical economic analysis. Applying unsupervised text-as-data algorithms to a new collection of 30,000 CBAs from Canada in the period 1986-2015, we parse legal...

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The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

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The value of worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

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The protection of privacy in civil service employment

Otto, Marta - 2025

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Policy for decent work in agriculture

Meemken, Eva-Marie; Aremu, Olayinka; Fabry, Anna; … - 2025

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Deregulating job protection : evidence on productivity and income distribution from Italy

Ciminelli, Gabriele; Franco, Guido - 2025

This paper investigates the impact of job protection deregulation on firms' productivity, leveraging a size-based cutoff in the eligibility criteria of a pivotal 2014 labor market reform in Italy. The reform replaced reinstatement requirements with a progressive compensation system for unjust...

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Innovative approaches to formalization in Asia and the Pacific : background report to ILO Asia and the Pacific Tripartite Regional Knowledge Sharing Forum

2025

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The effect of social CSR on labor investment decisions : theory and international evidence

Palmeira, Rafael; Pindado, Julio - 2025

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Labor market regulations and firm adjustments in skill demand

Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2025

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An incomplete double movement : Spain's legislative strategy for platform courier reclassification

Vieira, Tiago - 2025

Digital labour platforms, which have long operated outside conventional employment frameworks, are now facing a regulatory drive. Spain seems to be at the forefront of this international effort, notably through a set of legislative initiatives - most prominently the so-called Ley Rider. Based on...

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Mapping efforts to protect worker rights in supply chains

Jaax, Alexander - 2025

With modern production processes involving multiple border crossings, questions about connections between economic integration and labour rights arise. It is notably the case that products consumed in countries with high labour standards may still incorporate labour inputs from countries with...

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The impact of employment protection on the temporary employment services sector in South Africa

Cassim, Aalia; Casale, Daniela - 2025

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The state of social justice : a work in progress : 2025

2025

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Just cause protection under manager discrimination

Pickens, Joseph; Sojourner, Aaron - 2026

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Just cause protection under manager discrimination

Pickens, Joseph; Sojourner, Aaron - 2025

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The impact of labour laws on the labour share of national income, productivity, unemployment and employment : first results from the 2023 update of the CBR Labour Regulation Index

Billa, Bhumika; Bishop, Louise; Deakin, Simon F.; … - 2025

This paper reports first results from the extension of the CBR Labour Regulation Index (CBR-LRI) to include changes in labour laws around the world over the last decade. The index, which previously went up to 2013, now codes for labour laws in 117 countries, equivalent to 95% of world GDP, for...

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Delivering a just transition : advancing decent work, gender equality, and social protection

2025

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CARE4CARE - We care for those who care : Vol. I ; Care work and working conditions: national legal frameworks and comparative insights

2025

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The impact of cost stickiness on income smoothing : evidence from employment protection regulations

Filip, Andrei; Liu, Junqi; Lui, Daphne - 2025

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Endogenous employment protection and total factor productivity : plant-level evidence from India

Sofi, Irfan Ahmad - 2025

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A narrative database of labour market reforms in euro area economies

Aumond, Romain; Di Tommaso, Valerio; Rünstler, Gerhard - 2022

We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between 1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates...

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