Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - In: Labour Economics 23 (2013) C, pp. 77-88
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...