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Boeri, Tito - 2013

case of employer initiated job separations. According to the extensive literature on Employment Protection Legislation such …

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Insuring Displaced Workers : Human Capital Losses and Severance Pay Design

Feng, Shuaizhang; Parsons, Donald O. - 2021

Displaced workers, especially long tenured workers, face large human capital losses. Private firms frequently offer insurance against this threat in the form of severance pay - scheduled benefits linked in expectation to the worker's human capital loss. We explore this linkage, first reviewing...

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Corporate governance reporting : compliance with upper limits for severance payments to members of executive boards in Germany

Dilger, Alexander; Schottmüller-Einwag, Ute - 2019

This paper examines how corporate governance reporting corresponds to actual conduct regarding severance payment caps for prematurely departing members of companies' executive boards in Germany. For this purpose, we first evaluate the declarations of conformity for all companies listed in the...

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Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay

Auray, Stéphane; Danthine, Samuel; Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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

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The Emergence of Private Job Displacement Insurance in the United States : Severance Pay Plans 1930-1954

Parsons, Donald O. - 2006

Formal employer-provided severance pay plans became common during the first years of the Great Depression, an apparent reaction to the large-scale layoffs of long-service workers under difficult market conditions. Reasonably consistent series are constructed for severance plan coverage and...

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The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs

Parsons, Donald O. - 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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Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms

Holzmann, Robert; Pouget, Yann; Vodopivec, Milan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The paper examines severance pay programs around the world by providing the first ever overview of existing programs, examining their historic development, assessing their economic rationale and describing current reform attempts. While a significant part of the paper is devoted to a...

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Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay

Auray, Stéphane; Danthine, Samuel; Poschke, Markus - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2014

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097425

Insuring Displaced Workers: Human Capital Losses and Severance Pay Design

Feng, Shuaizhang; Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Displaced workers, especially long tenured workers, face large human capital losses. Private firms frequently offer insurance against this threat in the form of severance pay – scheduled benefits linked in expectation to the worker’s human capital loss. We explore this linkage, first...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762161

Entitled to Leave : The impact of Unemployment Insurance Eligibility on Employment Duration and Job Quality

Khoury, Laura - 2020

provide a comprehensive evaluation of a reform that softened the minimum employment record condition to qualify for UI … benefits in France after 2009. Using administrative panel data matching employment and unemployment spells, we first provide … level – through a jump in transitions from employment to unemployment – and at the macro level – through the scheduling of …

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