is costlier for workers to become unemployed and, hence, allows them to reduce overall agency costs. In the unique robust …

is costlier for workers to become unemployed and, hence, allows them to reduce overall agency costs. In the unique robust …

cost distortions by substituting severance savings plans, which have zero firing costs. Indeed severance insurance plans …

In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising … legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of labor courts on effective firing costs, we explore a new database that … did not fully translate the reduction of firing costs mandated by the new EPL to effective firing costs. …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment … dismissed than high quality workers. Moreover, as hiring and firing costs increase, firms find it more costly to hire a bad … states that raised firing costs by introducing exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine. …

This paper is the first to analyze the costs of job loss in Russia, using unique new data from the Russian Longitudinal … centrally planned economy as well as to a wider occurrence of job insecurity among displaced workers. -- Costs of job loss …