unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only …

quasi-experimental setting, exploiting a reform that introduced unjust-dismissal costs in Italy for firms below 15 employees … and left firing costs unchanged for bigger firms. Accounting for the endogeneity of the treatment status, we find that …

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness (> six … weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal …

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness (> six … weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal …