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Assessing the Political Viability of Labor Market Reform : The Case of Employment Protection

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 1999

We analyze the political support for employment protection legislation. Unlike my previous work on the same topic, this paper pays a lot of attention to the role of obsolescence in the growth process. In voting in favor of employment protection, incumbent employees trade off lower living...

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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

dismissed than high quality workers. Moreover, as hiring and firing costs increase, firms find it more costly to hire a bad … states that raised firing costs by introducing exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine. …

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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection, and Long-Term Unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

dismissed than high quality workers. Moreover, as hiring and firing costs increase, firms find it more costly to hire a bad … raised firing costs by introducing exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine …

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