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The use of flexible measures to cope with economic crises in Germany and Brazil
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Pastore, José - 2011
This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286863
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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2003
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point is Lazear?s (1990) empirical dictum that severance payment requirements adversely impact the labor market. We extend his sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261645
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Labor retrenchment laws and their effect on wages and employment: a theoretical investigation
Basu, Kaushik; Fields, Gary S.; Debgupta, Shub - 2007
Many countries have legislation which make it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers. In the case of India, the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, requires firms that employ 50 or more workers to pay a compensation to any worker who is to be retrenched. This paper builds a theoretical model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268155
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Layoff costs and efficiency with asymmetric information
Delacroix, Alain; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009
Wage determination under asymmetric information generates inefficiencies due to excess turnover. Severance pay and layoff taxes can improve efficiency. We show that inefficient separations can even be fully removed with fixed separation taxes in the case where the relevant private information is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269525
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004
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/10010261862
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Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes : Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?
Bonin, Holger - 2004
Die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes ist ein wesentliches Element der im Januar 2004 in Deutschland in Kraft gesetzten …A key feature of the recent labor market reforms in Germany is liberalization of dismissal protection legislation. The …?s predominantly structural unemployment. A promising strategy would require forceful reform of social welfare institutions prohibiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261863
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From the dual apprenticeship system to a dual labor market? The German high-skill equilibrium and the service economy
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009
Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269341
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Reassessing the wage penalty for temps in Germany
Jahn, Elke J. - 2008
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268722
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Employment protection reform in search economies
L'Haridon, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 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/10010267815
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 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/10010268671