Employment Protection
Employment Protection and Takeovers
... This table presents the results of cross-sectional/triple-differences analysis of the effect of EPL reforms on the combined firm CAR. Four cross-sectional dimensions are examined. In columns (1) and (2), Business Overlap ...
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Labour shares, employment protection and unions in European economies
... the employment protection of regular workers, wage-setting characteristics, product market regulation, total factor productivity, and capital–output ...
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A Gender Perspective on Flexicurity and the Swedish Employment Protection Act
... permanent employment contracts the strongest employment ...terminate employment, which implies that rapid changes in the number of permanent workers are not ...temporary employment provided by ...
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A Gender Perspective on Flexicurity and the Swedish Employment Protection Act
... permanent employment contracts the strongest employment ...terminate employment, which implies that rapid changes in the number of permanent workers are not ...
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Employment protection legislation, multinational firms and innovation
... The results for total innovation are presented in Table 5. Column (1) shows results for a simple specification with multinational firm fixed effects. The positive coefficient on EPL indicates that, within multinational ...
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Employment Protection Regulation and Labour Market Performance
... studies, employment protection provisions can be justified on the grounds that workers are risk-averse and that they do not have the possibility to privately insure themselves against labour market ...
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Measures of de facto employment protection legislation
... provide employment protection legislation in accordance to the average of EU countries, these regulations were not adhered to completely, which in reality increased this type of flexibility of labour ...the ...
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A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment
... of employment protection has some important limitation that are worth ...First, employment protection legislation is one component of what we think of more broadly as labor market ...in ...
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Employment protection and regional worker flows in Italy
... concerning Employment Protection Leg- islation (EPL) are not fully confirmed by empirical evidence in Italy, a strict EPL country in the nine- ties, according to OECD ...
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Employment Protection and Labor Productivity: Positive or Negative?
... Since the 1980s, many European countries have implemented labor market reforms aimed at reducing the level of employment protection. The idea behind this process is twofold: on one hand, labor market ...
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Labour share and employment protection in European economies
... self employment incomes - or a fraction of these- in labour share; in this case a second question is that of a proper measure of wages of self employees, solved by ad hoc assumptions of attributing them the same ...
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Different paths towards Flexibility, Deregulated employment protection or temporary employment?
... dependant employment 1 which do not offer workers the prospect of a long-lasting employment relationship” (OECD, 2002a: ...of employment, it also includes temporary agency workers, contracts for a ...
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Shirking and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
... The typical mechanism used by firms to provide incentives to workers and prevent their shirking is through the threat of firing them in case of shirking detection (Shapiro and Stiglitz, 1984). However, this threat is ...
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The Impact of the Employment Protection Legislation Reform on the Labor Market’s Flexicurity in Morocco
... A more revealing variable is the causes of unemployment. Despite the fact that the 2004 Labor Code came up with further employment protection-related restrictions, dismissals actually increased in a ...
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Employment Protection, Employers’ Hiring Strategies and the Screening Role of Temporary Contracts
... The equilibrium search model is helpful in studying the effects of employment protection when both perma- nent and temporary jobs are considered. In particular, the endogenous job destruction framework ...
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The impact of temporary employment and employment protection on labour productivity: evidence from an industry-level panel of EU countries
... of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for temporary employment (TE), along with permanent employment (PE), in EU ...greater employment re- ...
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Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation
... Since the work of Lazear (1990), it has been well-known that in a perfectly competitive labour market the cost of employment protection legislation (EPL) is fully shifted onto lower wages if dismissal costs ...
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Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation: evidence from Italy
... Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to test ...
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Employment Protection and Innovation Intensity ESRI WP445 December 2012
... stricter employment protection legislation led to significantly lower innovation intensity in industries with a higher job reallocation ...of employment regulations on the use of temporary contracts ...
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The Trade-off Between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection
... and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labour market ...dimensions: employment status – insiders and outsiders – and skills – low and ...model ...
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