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We investigate the labor market effects of the reestablishment of private-sector workers' right to reinstatement for unfair dismissals, which occurred in 2002 in Peru. Using data from Peruvian Household Surveys from 2004 to 2015, and the Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a...
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: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Our case studies show that recent reforms … deregulation of dismissal protection for open-ended contracts. …
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This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...
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: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Our case studies show that recent reforms … deregulation of dismissal protection for open-ended contracts …
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In this paper, we provide a new set of stylised facts on firm provision of on-the-job training and labor market … competition. We exploit job ad texts taking a supervised machine learning approach to identify training offers. We find that … around 20% of US job posts offer on-the-job training, with an upward trend over the last decade. Training offers are …
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dismissal costs. We exploit the fact that costs for unjust dismissals in Italy increased for firms below 15 employees relative … to bigger firms after 1990. We find that the increase in dismissal costs after 1990 decreased accessions and separations … increase in dismissal costs had smaller effects on turnover for women in sectors faced with strict product market regulations …
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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-indifferences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This...
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