Bassanini, Andrea; Nunziata, Luca; Venn, Danielle - In: Economic Policy 24 (2009) 04, pp. 349-402
"We examine the effect of dismissal regulation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the stringency of employment protection legislation and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. Our empirical results suggest that mandatory dismissal...