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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations
Bastgen, Andreas - 2015
We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...
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'Take it or Go to Court' - The Impact of Sec. 1a of the German Protection Against Dismissal Act on Severance Payments
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an employee, given a predetermined severance payment. Most legal scholars presume the change to be without impact, while a minority of experts claims it to be either beneficial or...
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Labour Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries
Fialová, Kamila - 2008
This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...
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Employment Protection and Fertility : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated by a ‘fair cause’ or ‘justified motive’ in...
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Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market
Kaas, Leo - 2015
The introduction of firm size into labor search models raises the question how wages are set when average and marginal … more vacancies, but also by offering higher lifetime wages that attract more workers which allows to fill vacancies with …
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Time Consistency and Bureaucratic Budget Competition
Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2006
High employment protection in the public sector results in strategic over-employment if government divisions compete for budgets in a dynamic setting. Bureaucrats who are interested in maximising their divisions' output employ excess labor, since this induces the sponsor to provide complementary...
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Discrimination and Employment Protection
Holden, Steinar; Rosen, Asa - 2021
We study a search model with employment protection legislation. We show that if the output from the match is uncertain ex ante, there may exist a discriminatory equilibrium where workers with the same productive characteristics are subject to different hiring standards. If a bad match takes...
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Employment Protection versus Flexicurity : On Technology Adoption in Unionised Firms
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versus flexicurity - affect technology adoption in unionised firms. We consider both trade unions' incentives to oppose or endorse labour-saving technology, and firms' incentives to invest in such technology. We find...
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Employment Protection : The Case of Limited Enforceability
Baumann, Florian - 2021
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...
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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Edo, Anthony - 2017
We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and … state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects ….S. States with low minimum wages (i.e., where the federal minimum wage is binding). The results are robust to instrumenting …
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