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Mandatory costs by firm size thresholds: firm location, growth and death in Sri Lanka

Abidoye, Babatunde O.; Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

Sri Lanka's Termination of Employment of Workmen Act (TEWA) requires that firms with 15 or more workers justify layoffs and provide generous severance pay to displaced workers, with smaller firms being exempted. Although formally subject to TEWA, firms in Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) do not...

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Mandatory costs by firm size thresholds : firm location, growth and death in Sri Lanka

Abidoye, Babatunde O.; Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

Sri Lanka’s Termination of Employment of Workmen Act (TEWA) requires that firms with 15 or more workers justify layoffs and provide generous severance pay to displaced workers, with smaller firms being exempted. Although formally subject to TEWA, firms in Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) do not...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011765131

Mandatory costs by firm size thresholds: firm location, growth and death in Sri Lanka

Abidoye, Babatunde; Orazem, Peter; Vodopivec, Milan - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-20

<Para ID="Par1">Sri Lanka’s Termination of Employment of Workmen Act (TEWA) requires that firms with 15 or more workers justify layoffs and provide generous severance pay to displaced workers, with smaller firms being exempted. Although formally subject to TEWA, firms in Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) do not...</para>

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Firing Cost and Firm Size: A Study of Sri Lanka's Severance Pay System

Abidoye, Babatunde; Orazem, Peter; Vodopivec, Milan - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008

sector. A theoretical model shows that firms subject to TEWA will tend to mass at or below the threshold of 14 workers until … they get an atypically large productivity shock that would propel them beyond the threshold. EPZ firms will be largely … likely to add employees than nonEPZ firms. Above the threshold, nonEPZ firms are more likely to shed workers while EPZ firms …

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Who benefits from labor market institutions? Evidence from surveys of life satisfaction

Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 1, pp. 112-124

This paper investigates the welfare effects of labor market institutions, placing an emphasis on how the institutions’ effects are differentiated by socio-demographic subgroups. We study how life satisfaction is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment...

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Labor market institutions: Curse or blessing?

Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2006

Previous literature has identified considerable non-pecuniary costs to macroeconomic fluctuation and uncertainty. The present paper investigates whether and to what extent labor market institutions can mitigate those costs. We study how life satisfaction of European citizens is affected by...

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Employment protection and temporary work agencies

Baumann, Florian; Mechtel, Mario; Stähler, Nikolai - 2008

Employers who use temporary agency staff in contrast to regular staff are not affected by employment protection regulations when terminating a job. Therefore, services provided by temporary work agencies may be seen as a substitute for regular employment. In this paper, we analyze the effects of...

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Labor market institutions: Curse or blessing?

Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - 2006

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The Joint Design of Unemployment Insurance and Employment Protection. A First Pass

Blanchard, Olivier J; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Unemployment insurance and employment protection are typically discussed and studied in isolation. ln this paper, we argue that they are tightly linked, and we focus on their joint optimal design in a simple model, with risk averse workers, risk neutral firms, and random shocks to productivity....

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Labor Market Institutions: Curse or Blessing?

Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2006

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