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What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … collective bargaining coordination, the role of institutions is also more muted than suggested in the literature. …

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms’ demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel...

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