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The Economics of Severance Pay
Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
case of employer initiated job separations. According to the extensive literature on Employment Protection Legislation such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670822
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Severance Pay Mandates: Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
to assess the impact of service-linked severance benefits on age-specific employment levels. The model permits design of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225769
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Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence
Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Severance pay mandates are an appealing job displacement insurance strategy in developing countries, which have only modest government administrative capacities, but they carry the threat of adverse indirect effects. A critical review of the empirical literature reveals that severance benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149155
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Employment Protection and Product Market Regulation
Koeniger, Winfried; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Product market regulation and employment protection are highly correlated across OECD countries. Using an augmented … protect jobs relatively more. Product market regulation increases the scope for employment protection because firms can bear … the cost of employment protection more easily and still break even. Moreover, product market regulation decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233860
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Job Turnover, Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions
Joseph, Gilles; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703335
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Where Did They Go?
Frederiksen, Anders; Westergaard-Nielsen, Niels - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703450
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Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
Jurajda, Stepán - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of …’ knowledge of the UIC eligibility rules. Being entitled to UIC shortens workers’ employment durations. This negative effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703559
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Job Displacement Penalties in Japan
Bognanno, Michael; Delgado, Lisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The costs of job displacement are examined on a sample of Japanese workers successfully provided job placement services from 2000 to 2003, a period of economic stagnation and structural change in Japan. We find that displaced workers suffer a loss of approximately $1,100 for each additional year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703790
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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822179
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana; Pica, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822205