Autor, David H.; Donohue, John J.; Schwab, Stewart J. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 88 (2006) 2, pp. 211-231
We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful-discharge protections adopted by U.S. state courts during the last three decades. We find robust evidence that one wrongful-discharge doctrine, the implied-contract exception, reduced state employment rates by 0.8% to 1.7%. The initial...
