An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has … financial performance, labor productivity, employment, quits, absenteeism, industrial relations climate, and plant closings …

significantly lower reductions in future employment probabilities. These findings suggest that compositional differences cause …

This paper shows that the effects of employment protection critically depend on its enforcement. For this purpose, we … capture evasion of employment protection via market exit in a setting of monopolistic competition. We find that the number of … firms entering the market depends on firing costs only in the case of imperfect enforcement of employment protection …

Reforms of employment protection (EPL) in Europe eased the recourse to temporary forms of employment while not reducing …

Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …

employment prospects are particularly bad. We evaluate its impact on layoff (firing) as well as on hiring, taking advantage of …

claims can be directly attributed to job displacement and other adverse shocks to employment opportunities. For men, we …