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We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...
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large share of temporary contracts, but once we restrict attention to employment spells lasting at least one month these …
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significantly lower reductions in future employment probabilities. These findings suggest that compositional differences cause …
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This paper shows that the effects of employment protection critically depend on its enforcement. For this purpose, we … capture evasion of employment protection via market exit in a setting of monopolistic competition. We find that the number of … firms entering the market depends on firing costs only in the case of imperfect enforcement of employment protection …
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Reforms of employment protection (EPL) in Europe eased the recourse to temporary forms of employment while not reducing …
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Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …
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This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high … school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time …
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and employment, generates a fractionalized understanding of the multidimensional career effect that union membership has …
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We propose an explanation of why Europeans choose to work fewer hours than Americans and also suffer higher rates of unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries reduce, ceteris paribus, the gains from being...
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and employment, generates a fractionalized understanding of the multidimensional career effect that union membership has …
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