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How Stable is Labour Market Dualism? Reforms of Employment Protection in Nine European Countries
Eichhorst, Werner - 2019
: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Our case studies show that recent reforms …
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Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
States and France. It discusses how the welfare state can be reformed in order to improve outcomes for older workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155556
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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation : Evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089002
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Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
Sá, Filipa - 2010
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759354
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Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries
Bassanini, Andrea; Nunziata, L.; Venn, Danielle - 2021
This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference-in-differences" framework, which exploits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325106
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The Detrimental Effect of Job Protection on Employment : Evidence from France
Cahuc, Pierre - 2019
just after. The layoff costs and its procedural component are evaluated thanks to the estimation of a search and matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868796
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Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119545
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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?
Merkl, Christian - 2010
This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139060
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Bender, Stefan - 2021
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319419
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Lumpy Price Adjustments : A Microeconometric Analysis
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Fuss, Catherine; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2021
This paper presents a simple model of state-dependent pricing that allows identification of the relative importance of the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets...
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