The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study … the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for small firms with less than eleven employees to exempt two workers from …

In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product … their employees implicit employment protection. Family firms are believed to have longer time horizons, and are as owners … terms of adjusting their employment. I confirm previous findings that family firms are less sensitive to sales fluctuations …