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Job insecurity and health : evidence from older European workers

Suari-Andreu, Eduard; Schwartz, Tim; Lent, Max van; … - 2022

A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on around 30 thousand older workers from 20 European countries...

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Employment protection and capital-labor ratios

Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2014

Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The available empirical evidence suggests a non-monotonic...

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Unsettled : job insecurity reduces home-ownership

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2024

We here evaluate the link between job insecurity and one of the most-important decisions that individuals take: homeownership. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax on firms that laid off older workers produced an unexpected exogenous rise in job insecurity for younger workers. A...

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Employment protection, job insecurity, and job mobility

Bertoni, Marco; Chinetti, Simone; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023

This study leverages the Italian Jobs Act reform as a natural experiment to examine the impact of reduced employment protection on job insecurity and job mobility. The reform significantly lowered protection for open-ended contract workers in large firms hired after March 7, 2015, and introduced...

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The detrimental effect of job protection on employment : evidence from France

Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck; Prat, Julien - 2019

the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …

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From dual to unified employment protection : transition and steady state

Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Siassi, Nawid - 2016

This paper analyses the optimal design of a single open-ended contract (SOEC) and studies the political economy of moving towards such a SOEC in a labour market where employment protection is highly discontinuous. We develop a computationally tractable approach to compare two economic...

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How stable is labour market dualism? : reforms of employment protection in nine European countries

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2019

Labour market segmentation currently is at the forefront of national and European policy debates. While the European Commission and the OECD try to promote what they see as more inclusive policies, academic observers remain skeptical. Particularly the dualisation literature points to stable...

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Labor market externalities of pre-retirement employment protection

Chrostek, Paweł; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2024

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...

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Contractual employment protection and the scarring risk of unemployment

Jahn, Elke J. (contributor); Wagner, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

Risk-averse job seekers fearing the scarring effect of unemployment meet vacancies offering contractual employment … risk and the scarring risk of unemployment. SPC diversify the income risk, but provide only limited protection against the … of demand shocks or of finding a re-employment after a dismissal as well as lower public unemployment benefits increase …

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Does employment protection unprotect workers? : the labor market effects of job reinstatements in Peru

Jiménez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2020

We investigate the labor market effects of the reestablishment of private-sector workers' right to reinstatement for unfair dismissals, which occurred in 2002 in Peru. Using data from Peruvian Household Surveys from 2004 to 2015, and the Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a...

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