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The economic costs of court decisions concerning dismissals in Japan: Identification by judge transfers
Okudaira, Hiroko - 2009
problem by exploiting the triennial judge transfer system in Japan, or the exogenous allocation of judges to prefectures. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332512
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Setting It Right: Employment Protection, Labour Reallocation and Productivity
Martin, John P.; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2011
hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity growth. It also reviews how workers affected by labour … labour market flows and these flows, in turn, have significant impacts on productivity growth. At the same time, the evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331395
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The dynamics of the regulation of labor in developing and developed countries since 1960
Campos, Nauro F.; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2012
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289939
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The Plaintiff's role in enforcing a court ruling: Evidence from a labor court in Mexico
Kaplan, David S.; Sadka, Joyce - 2011
We analyze the outcomes of 332 cases from a labor court in Mexico in which a judge awarded money to a plaintiff who claimed to have been fired by a firm without cause. The judgments were enforced in only 40% of the cases. A plaintiff may try to enforce a judgment by petitioning the court to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314071
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Employment Protection Reform, Enforcement in Collective Agreements and Worker Flows
Heyman, Fredrik; Skedinger, Per - 2011
Differential enforcement of employment protection by explicit design of the legislation, for example through exemptions for small firms, has been exploited in a growing body of research. However, little is known about the effects of differential enforcement that is not defined by the letter of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320388
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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009
Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...
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Employment protection and fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated by a 'fair cause' or 'justified motive' in firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284000
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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations
Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - 2015
in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and … estimated negative impact of wrongful dismissal laws in the US on productivity and the positive effect on the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500437
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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter A.; de Wind, Joris - 2010
productivity and a risky technology with productivity subject to sizeable shocks. Strict EPL makes the risky technology relatively … less attractive because it is more costly to shed workers upon receiving a low productivity draw. We calibrate the model … mechanism can explain a considerable portion of the slowdown in productivity in the EU relative to the US since 1995. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326074
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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter A.; de Wind, Joris - 2010
productivity and a risky technology with productivity subject to sizeable shocks. Strict EPL makes the risky technology relatively … less attractive because it is more costly to shed workers upon receiving a low productivity draw. We calibrate the model … mechanism can explain a considerable portion of the slowdown in productivity in the EU relative to the US since 1995. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277257