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This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...
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We provide empirical evidence that strong dismissal laws appear to have a positive effect on the innovative pursuits of … innovation, we identify the effect of dismissal laws by exploiting the time-series variation generated by staggered country … stringent laws governing dismissal of employees. In addition, stringent dismissal laws disproportionately influence innovation in …
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Originally, anchoring labour rights to the existence of a personal relationship of subordination was functional to prevent the greater bargaining strength of the employed being disproportionately reflected in the terms and conditions regulating the provision of labour. This does not seem anymore...
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In the fifty-sixth series of the Hamlyn Lectures (2004), Sir Bob Hepple applied his mind to particular structural problems facing UK employment law in the 21st century. One of the challenges which he identified was "the absence of a general principle that one may not derogate from certain core...
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On 7 August 2007, Gordon Anderson delivered his inaugural lecture after becoming a professor in the Law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington. Gordon took as his theme the protection of employees employed on an individual contract of employment. Following the repeal of the award system by...
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Although it is widely understood that employers and employees are not equally situated, we fail adequately to account for this inequality in the law governing their relationship. We can best understand this inequality in terms of status, which encompasses one's level of income, leisure and...
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