Report of a meeting of representatives of European forestry contracting associations and contractors. Includes papers on the use of contract labour in European forestry, the organization and services of forestry contractors' associations, the management of health and safety in forestry, the...

This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This mechanism is based on the relative costs of dismissing young versus older workers resulting from job security provisions that are related to tenure. Using 39 consecutive annual...