belief has led several countries to reform their labor markets and liberalize the use of fixed-term contracts. Despite how …

This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll …' to U.S' levels. We argue that the reduction of payroll taxes (within the context of the social security reform), and the …

Reform of 1990. A theoretical model illustrates the effect of dismissal costs when there is a noncompliant sector. The model … informal workers (who are not covered and were, thus, not directly affected by the reform). The differences …-in-differences results indicate increased separations and accessions for formal workers relative to informal workers after the reform …