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Employment Protection Legislation and Wages
Leonardi, Marco; Pica, Giovanni - 2021
In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can be undone by a properly designed labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content to this proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental...
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Employment Protection Legislation and Mismatch : Evidence from a Reform
Berton, Fabio - 2017
Liberalization of temporary contracts has been a hallmark of labor market reforms during the last decades. More recently, factors like the sovereign debt crisis pushed the most indebted countries to unprecedented reductions of employment protection legislation (EPL) also on open-ended contracts....
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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law : Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth - 2013
implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076822
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Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers
Akee, Randall - 2018
China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on … firm for more than 10 years.Using data from the 2008 China General Social Survey, we find strong evidence that firms did in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912748
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The Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Working in Bureaucracy : Evidence from China
Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022
those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … the campaign came into effect in different provincial administrative divisions of mainland China, between individuals with …
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Hedonic Wage Equilibrium : Theory, Evidence and Policy
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2010
We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...
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Partial Identification of Willingness-to-Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life
Sojourner, Aaron - 2010
Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...
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Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety
D’Ambrosio, Anna - 2017
Applying propensity score reweighting to Italian administrative data covering the period 1994-2012, we study the conditional distributions of injuries by wage of native and foreign workers and distinguish between the component that is explained by observable characteristics and the component...
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania - 2020
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces...
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Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis confirms that the incidence of a works council is...
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