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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …
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Employment protection legislation, labor courts, and effective firing costs
Jimeno, Juan F.; Martínez-Matute, Marta; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/2, pp. 1-26
In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding severance payments mandated by the employment protection legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of...
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The Quality of Industrial Relations and Labour Market Performance
Feldmann, Horst - 2007
relations affects unemployment and employment rates. To measure the quality of industrial relations, we use the results of …, as well as endogeneity, we find that cooperative industrial relations are likely to lower unemployment and to increase …
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Labor market institutions and long-term effects of youth unemployment
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi - 2014
worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher unemployment rate while the worker is 16-24 years old has a 0 ….14 percentage-point higher unemployment rate at ages 25-29 and 0.03 percentage points higher at ages 30-34. The persistence of this …
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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany
Berger, Helge - 2006
unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …
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The Demand for Individual Grievance Procedures in Germany and Spain: Labour Law Changes versus Business Cycle/La demanda de reclamaciones laborales individuales en Alemania y Españ...
FRICK, BERND; MALO, MIGUEL A.; GARCIA MARTINEZ, PILAR; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 30 (2012) Abril, pp. 283-310
17 autonomous regions of Spain (1987-2006) show that labour market characteristics, such as the unemployment and the … “workers’ rights”. Thus, the individual costs of unemployment are better predictors of the demand for individual grievance …
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Labor courts, nomination bias, and unemployment in Germany
Berger, Helge; Neugart, Michael - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 659-673
activity and unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. …
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Unemployment and the "Labour-Management Conspiracy"
Karp, Larry S. - 2004
unionized sector creates unemployment whenever the union wage exceeds the competitive wage. Government intervention can increase … both the equilibrium amount of unemployment and worsen the intersectoral allocation of labour, because of the induced … change in the endogenous wage. Unemployment weakens but does not eliminate the possibility of a "labour-management conspiracy." …
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Does it pay to be a woman? : labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014
In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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Does job security hamper employment prospects?
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Skedinger, Per - 2018
unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …
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