Autor, David H.; Donohue, John J.; Schwab, Stewart J. - 2022
We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful-discharge protections in the United States. Over the last … three decades, most U.S. state courts have adopted one or more common law wrongful discharge doctrines that limit employers … robust evidence of a modest negative impact ( 0.8 to 1.6 percentage points) of one wrongful-discharge doctrine, the implied …