) for assessing the strictness of national labor laws with respect to employers' firing costs. In addition to the overall … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor …

information on respondents' employment status with questions measuring attitudes towards dismissal regulation and other labour …

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 …

and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental setting. We consider a reform that introduced unjust- dismissal … costs in Italy for firms below 15 employees, leaving firing costs unchanged for bigger firms. Estimates which account for …

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 …