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Severance pay and the shadow of the law : evidence for West Germany

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2005

Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the outcomes of dismissal conflicts. In this study we focus on severance pay and inquire whether its incidence and level varies in a systematic manner with the legal rules as defined...

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Globalization, jobs, and welfare : the roles of social protection and redistribution

Ranjan, Priya - 2015 - Current Draft: December, 2014

unemployment. If the jobs performed by domestic workers can be easily substituted by imports, then globalization reduces wages and …

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Employment protection : the case of limited enforceability

Baumann, Florian (contributor) - 2008

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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Efficient firm dynamics in a frictional labor market

Kaas, Leo; Kircher, Philipp - 2011

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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Do social policies harm employment and growth?

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003

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Workfare and trade unions : labor market repercussions of welfare reform

Schöb, Ronnie - 2003

Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the number of recipients of public financial assistance, a...

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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; Pannenberg, Markus - 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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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...

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Training, job security and incentive wages

Katsimē, Margarita - 2003

. This implies that firm-specific training can decrease current wages as it implies a credible commitment to lower future …

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Redundancy pay and collective dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo - 2001

Redundancy payments for collective dismissals are incorporated into a Shapiro-Stiglitz model of efficiency wages. It is … shown that a fixed payment will lower wages, leave employment and welfare unaffected if there are no wage-dependent taxes … payments. If these payments are also a function of previous wages, positive employment effects will be mitigated. A …

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