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Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

innovation, we identify the effect of dismissal laws by exploiting the time-series variation generated by staggered country …-level law changes. Using ﬁxed effect panel regressions and difference-in-difference tests, we ﬁnd that innovation is fostered by … stringent laws governing dismissal of employees. In addition, stringent dismissal laws disproportionately inﬂuence innovation in …

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Dismissal laws, innovation, and economic growth

Subramanian, Krishnamurthy V. - 2018

innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make it costly for firms to arbitrarily discharge employees …. This enables firms to commit to not punish short-run failures of employees. Because innovation is inherently risky and …, but path-breaking, projects thereby fostering firm-level innovation. I provide empirical evidence supporting this thesis …

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Coverage of employment protection legislation

Aleksynska, Mariya; Eberlein, Friederike - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-20

This paper documents the construction of a novel database on coverage of workers by employment protection legislation (EPL), across over 90 countries around 2010. Coverage is shown to be an important, yet largely neglected, aspect of employment protection institution, complementing our knowledge...

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Employment Protection Laws and Privatization

Subramanian, Krishnamurthy - 2017

Is privatization in a country related to the stringency of its employment protection laws (EPL) – and, if so, how? We address this question using privatization deals in fourteen European countries over three decades and all the changes in EPL within a country. Using traditional...

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Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States

Eamets, Raul; Masso, Jaan - 2021

There is increasing pressure for the flexibility of labour markets both in current EU member states and candidate countries. The paper aims to estimate the strictness of employment protection regulation, one of the most relevant aspects of labour market flexibility, and the degree of its actual...

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Employment Protection Laws and Privatization

Subramanian, Krishnamurthy; Megginson, William L. - 2020

Do employment protection laws hinder privatization? Using privatization deals in fourteen European countries from 1977-2003 and within-country variation in employment protection laws, we find that stringent employment protection laws significantly deter privatization. The fear of job cuts...

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Employment consequences of employment protection legislation

Skedinger, Per - 2011

This article surveys the literature and adds to the evidence on the impact of employment protection legislation on employment. While stringent employment protection contributes to less turnover and job reallocation, the effects on aggregate employment and unemployment over the business cycle are...

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Employment Protection, Investment, and Firm Growth

Bai, John (Jianqiu) - 2019

We exploit the adoption of U.S. state-level labor protection laws to study the effect of employment protection on corporate investment and growth. We find that, following the adoption of these laws, capital expenditures decrease, resulting in firms growing sales at a slower rate. Our findings...

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Employment Protection Laws and Corporate Cash Holdings

Karpuz, Ahmet - 2020

We study how employment protection laws (EPLs) affect corporate cash-holding decision. By exploiting within-country changes in EPLs across 20 OECD countries as a source of variation in labor adjustment costs, we show that following an increase in the stringency of EPLs, firms' cash holdings...

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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence : first evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...

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