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How does employment protection legislation influence hiring and firing decisions by the smallest firms?

Millán, Ana; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción; … - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 3, pp. 444-448

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on hiring decisions by own-account workers and firing decisions by very small firms (one to four employees). Using data from the EU-15 countries, our results show that the strictness of employment protection legislation is...

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Persistence in entrepreneurship and its implications for the European entrepreneurial promotion policy

Millán, José María; Congregado, Emilio; Román, … - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 1, pp. 83-106

– as related but distinct groups within entrepreneurship, this work analyzes the roles of different factors in … entrepreneurship survival in Europe from a new perspective: contrasting the determinants of own-account workers’ survival with those … affecting employers’ survival in the EU-15. Our results confirm the presence of persistence in entrepreneurship. However, we …

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