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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 …
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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 … legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of labor courts on effective firing costs, we explore a new database that … did not fully translate the reduction of firing costs mandated by the new EPL to effective firing costs. …
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The unemployment effect of hiring and firing regulation in developing countries : survey evidence
Feldmann, Horst - In: Applied economics letters 20 (2013) 16/18, pp. 1603-1607
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Employment protection legislation and entrepreneurial activity
Liebregts, Werner; Stam, Erik - In: International small business journal : ISBJ 37 (2019) 6, pp. 581-603
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Employment protection in dual labor markets : any amplification of macroeconomic shocks?
Lochner, Benjamin - 2014
Although labor market duality is a widespread phenomenon in many OECD countries, there is yet no research consent on the effects of duality on labor market dynamics and performance. Against this background, using a New Keynesian model with unemployment, this paper theoretically investigates the...
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Employment protection in dual labor markets : any amplification of macroeconomic shocks?
Lochner, Benjamin - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 24 (2024) 1, pp. 249-304
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Does weaker employment protection lower the cost of job loss?
Francesconi, Marco; Sonedda, Daniela - 2024
Leveraging a major Italian reform enacted in June 2012 that eroded employment protection to workers on permanent contracts, we use detailed administrative data to estimate how this reduction affected the cost of job loss. We employ a stacked-by-event research design, which compares workers...
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Does weaker employment protection lower the cost of job loss?
Francesconi, Marco; Sonedda, Daniela - 2024
Leveraging a major Italian reform enacted in June 2012 that eroded employment protection to workers on permanent contracts, we use detailed administrative data to estimate how this reduction affected the cost of job loss. We employ a stacked-by-event research design, which compares workers...
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Does Employment Protection Lead to Unemployment? A Panel Data Analysis of OECD Countries, 1990-2008
Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2012
This paper analyzed the OECD data on employment protection for 23 OECD countries over the time span 1990-2008 on the basis of alternative dynamic panel data models and panel causality tests and examines the validity of the neo-liberal argument that strictness of employment protection hurts labor...
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Reflections on employment protection legislation : an international comparison
Samir, Amine - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 18 (2015) 1, pp. 119-130
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