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Medical Malpractice : Impact of the Crisis and Effect of State Tort Reforms
Mello, Michelle M. - 2013
Many U.S. states are now in their fifth year of a medical malpractice "crisis", a period of volatility in the malpractice insurance market characterized by above average increases in premiums, contractions in the supply of insurance and deterioration in the financial health of carriers....
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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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Interpreting Pre-Trends as Anticipation : Impact on Estimated Treatment Effects from Tort Reform
Malani, Anup - 2015
While conducting empirical work, researchers sometimes observe changes in outcomes before adoption of a new policy. The conventional diagnosis is that treatment is endogenous. This observation is also consistent, however, with anticipation effects that arise naturally out of many theoretical...
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Exploring the Nexus between Certainty in Injury Compensation and Treatment Selection
Bertoli, Paola - 2017
of a change in medical liability pressure exploiting the geographical distribution of hospitals across court districts …
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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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Heterogeneous Impacts on Layoffs of Changes in Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Rules
Cravo, Tulio - 2020
This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program …
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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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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium
Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32
reforms is positively associated with the unemployment rate, the simultaneous implementation of fiscal consolidation measures … unemployment rate in the short run when they are approved during contractionary periods-while they have a non-significant effect …
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Machine Rules. Of Drones, Robots, and the Info-Capitalist Society
Noto La Diega, Guido - 2017
with wings. An analysis of the intellectual property, data protection, privacy, and liability issues is carried out bearing …
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Employment protection legislation in Russia: regional enforcement and labour market outcomes
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapelyushnikov, Rostislav; … - 2009
Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full...
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