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Judge bias in labor courts and firm performance
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Patault, Bérengère; … - 2020
has statistically significant effects on the survival, employment, and sales of small low-performing firms. However, we …
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The role of the housing market in workers' resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2017
substantial losses in employment and wage, an increase in the commuting distance and a decrease in the probability of moving home …
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The economics of severance pay
Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R. - 2013
case of employer initiated job separations. According to the extensive literature on Employment Protection Legislation such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757454
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Employment protection, product market regulation and firm selection
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor); Prat, Julien (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the exit-and-entry (extensive) margin, and the hiring-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize...
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Disability in the welfare state : an unemployment problem in disguise?
Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - 2010
claims can be directly attributed to job displacement and other adverse shocks to employment opportunities. For men, we …. -- Disability ; displacement ; social insurance ; employment opportunities …
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Workforce reorganization and the worker
Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2011
In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...
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Decomposing the wage losses of displaced workers : the role of the reallocation of workers into firms and job titles
Raposo, Pedro; Portugal, Pedro; Carneiro, Anabela - 2015
Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of workers' wages differentials before and after displacement. Potential wage losses of displaced...
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The perverse effects of job-security provisions on job security in Italy : results from a regression discontinuity design
Hijzen, Alexander; Mondauto, Leopoldo; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2013
This paper analyses the impact of employment protection (EP) on the composition of the workforce and worker turnover … using a unique firm-level dataset for Italy. The impact of employment protection is analyzed by means of a regression … of employment protection persists among larger firms well beyond the threshold and may account for about 20% of the …
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Working to get fired? : regression discontinuity effects of unemployment benefit eligibility on prior employment duration
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
relatively long period to collect benefits. We find that monthly transitions from employment to unemployment increase by 10% as … replacement ratios or those who meet the eligibility condition from multiple short employment spells. …
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Short-time work benefits revisited : some lessons from the Great Recession
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011
-level bargaining over hours, wages and employment levels may be more effective than STW in encouraging adjustment along the intensive … different institutional configurations as the demand for STW is very much affected by other institutions such as employment …
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