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Employment protection legislation and labour income shares in Europe [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2020 The paper analyses the determinant elements of the evolution of labour income share, measured by the size of compensation of employees as a percentage of GDP in twenty European economies.
Arestis Philips +2 more
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Employment protection legislation matters for the Phillips Curve [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2022 Liberal reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) aim at fostering the flexibility, dynamism and fluidity of the labor market without increasing unemployment. A New Keynesian model with search-and-matching frictions implies that such type of reforms have also a direct impact on the structural relationship between prices and unemployment, i.e ...
Daniele Siena, Riccardo Zago
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Employment protection legislation and SME performance [PDF]
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 2016 This article examines the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance. Rather than relying on country-specific proxies for EPL, as is common in the literature, we compute firm-specific measures of a firm’s exposure to EPL by using a panel dataset of 13,112 Belgian SMEs for the period between
Yannick Van Landuyt +2 more
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Employment Protection Legislation, Labour Market Dualism, and Fertility in Europe. [PDF]
Eur J Popul, 2023 Theoretically, whether a more loosely regulated labour market inhibits or fosters fertility in a society is ambiguous. Empirically, the few studies analysing the relationship between the strictness of employment protection legislation—the norms and ...
Bastianelli E, Guetto R, Vignoli D.
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Reflections On Employment Protection Legislation: An International Comparison
Comparative Economic Research, 2015 In Europe, as in the rest of industrialized countries, reforms of the labour market have generally concerned employment protection legislation (EPL). One of the main missions of this legislation is to insure security for workers, particularly in case of ...
Samir Amine
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Trust and Employment Protection Legislation
Economics Letters, 2023 Yes We examine the role of generalized social trust in substituting for employment protection legislation. Using foreign direct investment from the US to a sample of OECD countries, we find that trust diminishes the importance of formal employment regulations in investment attractiveness.
S. Jayakody +3 more
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Does Stricter Employment Protection Legislation Promote Self-employment? [PDF]
Small Business Economics, 2003 Using recently developed indicators of the strictness of employment protection legislation in OECD countries, the paper examines the issue of whether strict employment protection legislation may promote self-employment by encouraging employers to contract-out work to self-employed workers.
Martin Robson
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Does employment protection legislation affect employment and unemployment?
Economic Modelling, 2023 The article analyses the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on labour market outcomes. Despite widespread reforms that have reduced employment protection, the evidence on the effects of such reforms is inconclusive. Using data from sixteen European countries over the period 1985–2019, we analyse the impact of EPL on the dynamics of ...
Arestis, Philip +2 more
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Employment protection legislation in Croatia [PDF]
Financial Theory and Practice, 2014 According to business climate and competitiveness indicators published by international organisations, Croatia is a country with a rigid labour market and a high level of the legal protection of employees.
Marina Kunovac
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Employment Consequences of Employment Protection Legislation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 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 more uncertain.
Per Skedinger
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