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Employment protection and the market for innovations
Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - 2015
in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and … estimated negative impact of wrongful dismissal laws in the US on productivity and the positive effect on the number of …
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The impact of restricting fixed-term contracts on labor and skill demand
Grasso, Giuseppe; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023
This paper examines the impact of increasing the relative cost of fixed-term contracts on labor demand as well as the demand for standard measures of human capital and specific skill requirements. We evaluate a 2018 Italian labor law reform that raised the cost of fixed-term contracts while...
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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis
Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature our results suggest that...
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When protection becomes exploitation : the impact of firing costs on present-biased employees
Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; … - 2023
Employment protection harms early-career employees without benefitting them in later career stages (Leonardi and Pica, 2013). We demonstrate that this pattern can result from employers exploiting naïve present-biased employees. Employers offer a dynamic contract with low early-career wages, an...
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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009
Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...
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Employment protection and fertility : evidence from the 1990 Italian reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
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 firms...
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Optimal unemployment benefit policy and the firm productivity distribution
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif; Yashiv, Eran - 2016 - Revised Version: May 1, 2016
low- and high-productivity firms. By introducing a declining time profile of benefits, the government can affect the … equilibrium wage profile in a manner that enhances the sorting of workers across low- and high-productivity firms. We demonstrate … that optimal government policy depends on the dispersion and skewness of the firms' productivity distribution. …
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The impact of product and labour market reform on growth : evidence for OECD countries based on local projections
Haan, Jakob de; Wiese, Rasmus - 2020
This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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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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Trade unions Go global!
Donado, Alejandro (contributor); Wälde, Klaus (contributor) - 2008
Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases labour supply. A laissez-faire approach leaving safety of workplaces unknown is suboptimal. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are output and welfare...
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