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 …

reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden's workforce. Our difference-in-differences analysis of … their hiring standards in response to changes in dismissal costs …

Job-to-job turnover provides a way for employers to escape statutory firing costs, as unprofitable workers may … willfully quit their job on receiving an outside offer, thus sparing their incumbent employer the firing costs. Furthermore … employed job search, our model explains why higher firing costs intensify job-to-job turnover at the expense of transitions out …

seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding …, formal measures of severance-induced firing costs and hiring costs are derived. Firing costs are, it turns out …, systematically less than benefit generosity alone would imply. Moreover their interrelationship with hiring costs, often employed in …

) for assessing the strictness of national labor laws with respect to employers' firing costs. In addition to the overall … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor …