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Dismissal Laws in Australia : Reforms and Enforcement by Labour Courts
Freyens, Benoit - 2015
The paper analyses the arbitration of dismissal disputes by Australian labour courts over a 15 years' time span … characterized by two major legal reforms to unfair dismissal statutes. We isolate two channels by which we think the social values … dismissal cases. We also test for and address the Priest-Klein selection effect, which is known to potentially invalidate …
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How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly : Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program
Graversen, Brian Krogh; van Ours, Jan C. - 2007
This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were...
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and the Labor Market Effects of Trade : Evidence from Brazil
Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2018
How does enforcement of labor regulations shape the labor market effects of trade? To tackle this question, we exploit the Brazilian trade liberalization episode and exogenous variation in the intensity of both the trade shock and enforcement across local labor markets. Regions with stricter...
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Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy : Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2021
This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income...
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Can Overtime Premium Flexibility Promote Employment? Firm- and Worker-Level Evidence from a Labour Law Reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid to their workers by 50% or more. Until then, overtime premiums were set by law at a relatively high level and could not be cut unilaterally. We analyse matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983015
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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program : Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...
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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India : The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning : Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2013
India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …
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The Informal Labour Market in India : Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2013
This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...
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Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay
Basu, Parantap - 2015
) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …
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