Dismissal protection has experienced many statutory changes in Germany in the past decades. This paper estimates the … effects of dismissal protection on the hazard of leaving the establishment using as identification that workers employed … before the legal amendment maintained their previous dismissal protection. Utilizing linked employer-employee data (LIAB …

-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2010 is used to estimate, conditional on the existence of dismissal protection, the …

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness (> six … weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal …

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness (> six … weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal …

to react quickly to new challenges. This paper uses the latest change in dismissal protection legislation in Germany as a …