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The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs

Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that predicted severance plan consequences depend critically on the precise structure of the plan. Whether governments mandate (i) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans...

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Firing Costs, Unions and Employment

Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting … bargaining over redundancy pay has no impact on recent employment variation for plants in the sample; and third, that financial …

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Job displacement insurance : a policy typology

Parsons, Donald O. - 2016

Efforts to insure long-tenured displacement workers against earnings losses from unemployment spells and lower wages on subsequent jobs have led to an array of government and employer programs. A policy typology is proposed to impose order on these programmatic efforts. The basic typology...

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Mandated versus negotiated severance pay

Auray, Stéphane; Danthine, Samuel; Poschke, Markus - 2014

While most of the literature on employment protection has focused on government-mandated severance pay, it has recently …

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Voluntary employer-provided severance pay

Parsons, Donald O. - 2017

Employer-provided severance pay in the U.S. emerged among salaried workers during the Great Depression as an alternative to modest advance notice and expanded in the late 1950s and 1960s, especially among union (hourly) workers. A variety of sources are employed to estimate variations in...

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Employer-provided severance pay : the emergence of job displacement Insurance, 1930-1954

Parsons, Donald O. - 2017

of long-service workers, and (ii) the growing formalism of the employment relationship. Reasonably consistent series are …

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America: Overview and assessment

Ferrer, Ana M.; Riddell, W. Craig - 2011

The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee's mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America : overview and assessment

Ferrer, Ana M.; Riddell, William Craig - 2011

The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee’s mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...

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The Dutch Labour Market: Preparing for the Future

Gerritsen, Mathijs; Høj, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

high overall participation rate, due to a high frequency of part-time employment, a low effective retirement age and a high …

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Employment Protection Regulations and Their Impact on Employment

Pointner, Wolfgang - In: Monetary Policy & the Economy (2006) 3, pp. 44-57

Employment protection legislation (EPL) forms part of the institutional framework governing labor market allocation … robust results are found for its adverse impact on the employment opportunities of certain sociodemographic groups … benefits, which – contrary to employment protection – do not affect the employment opportunities of specific sociodemographic …

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