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Employment protection reform in search economies
L'Haridon, Olivier (contributor);  … - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373403
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Do employment protection reforms affect well-being?
Dräger, Vanessa - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283134
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
active labor market policies. The paper provides an overview of reform patterns and tries to assess whether and to what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455858
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Pension incomes in the European Union : policy reform strategies in comparative perspective
Mantovani, Daniela; Papadopoulos, Fotis; Sutherland, Holly - 2005
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002694083
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How stable is labour market dualism? : reforms of employment protection in nine European countries
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003759
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652681
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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")
Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor);  … - 2006
Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323165
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Do gun buybacks save lives? : evidence from panel data
Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - 2010
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975442
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Building political collusion : evidence from procurement auctions
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010
appointed right before the reform could be reelected for two additional terms, while the others for one only. Our primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962924
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727736