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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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Employment Protection: Tough to Scrap or Tough to Get?

Brügemann, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Differences in employment protection across countries appear to be quite persistent over time. One mechanism that could explain this persistence is the so called constituency effect: high employment protection creates a mass of workers in favor of maintaining high protection because deregulation...

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Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support?

Brügemann, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the ability of employment protection to generate its own political support. A version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model is used for this purpose. Under the standard assumption of Nash bargaining, workers value employment protection because it strengthens their hand in...

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Employment Protection and Capital-Labor Ratios

Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

labor market institutions may sometimes favor physical and human capital investments in second-best environments. …

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Labor Market Efficiency, Wages and Employment when Search Frictions Interact with Intrafirm Bargaining

Cahuc, Pierre; Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring cost and constant returns of labor, the bargaining...

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Labor Market Flows and Equilibrium Search Unemployment

Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages … individuals do not search for jobs when non-employed. Facing changes in the value of inactivity, individuals transit through three …

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