reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden's workforce. Our difference-in-differences analysis of … their hiring standards in response to changes in dismissal costs …

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of … firms, and is sustained as entrants imitate the best incumbents. In this framework, firing costs not only induce … misallocation of labor, but also affect growth by affecting firms' exit decisions. Importantly, charging firing costs only to …

The paper analyses the arbitration of dismissal disputes by Australian labour courts over a 15 years' time span … characterized by two major legal reforms to unfair dismissal statutes. We isolate two channels by which we think the social values … dismissal cases. We also test for and address the Priest-Klein selection effect, which is known to potentially invalidate …

seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding …, formal measures of severance-induced firing costs and hiring costs are derived. Firing costs are, it turns out …, systematically less than benefit generosity alone would imply. Moreover their interrelationship with hiring costs, often employed in …