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 …

In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an … on panel data for West Germany indicate that the legal change did have a negative effect on severance pay …