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contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …
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This paper examines reforms in German employment protection for permanent workers (EPLP) on workers' well-being. Using variation in how the reforms affected firms of different sizes, I apply a difference-in-differences approach in conjunction with individual fixed effects. I find that life...
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active labor market policies. The paper provides an overview of reform patterns and tries to assess whether and to what …
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reform are necessary in order to achieve common objectives across countries, and on the other provide indications of the … appropriate directions for reform in each case. …
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reform trajectories in a diverse group of European countries that are characterised by a high share of temporary employment … two preceding decades - or based on dualisation or insider-outsider theory. The reform trajectories are characterised by …
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Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
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Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms' employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 countries than in the rest and that, in some cases,...
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This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
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The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
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We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...
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