This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting … bargaining over redundancy pay has no impact on recent employment variation for plants in the sample; and third, that financial …

-period model with uncertainty. Where there are long-term employment relationships, and where risk-averse workers and risk … bargaining over firing costs, the presence of statutory firing costs reduces employment distortions associated with trade unions … will be associated with a higher incidence of temporary employment contracts and short-term jobs. …

We study the effects of the more stringent employment protection legislation (EPL) that applies in Italy to firms with … over 15 employees. We consider firms' propensity to grow when close to that threshold and changes in employment policies … less stable employment relations than those just below it. We document that this is because firms above the threshold make …

case of employer initiated job separations. According to the extensive literature on Employment Protection Legislation (EPL …

A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

employment turnover and high insurance can co-exist with an American-type steady-state with low unemployment, high employment …