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Reflections On Employment Protection Legislation: An International Comparison [PDF]
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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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 ...
Philip Arestis +2 more
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Employment protection legislation and entrepreneurial activity [PDF]
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 2019 Labour market institutions enable and constrain individual behaviour on the labour market and beyond. We investigate two main elements of national employment protection legislation and their effects upon entrepreneurial activity. We use multilevel analyses to estimate the separate impact of redundancy payments and the notice period for employers on ...
Werner Liebregts, Erik Stam
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Coverage of employment protection legislation [PDF]
IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016 This paper documents the construction of a novel database on coverage of workers by employment protection legislation (EPL), across over 90 countries around 2010.
Friederike Eberlein, Mariya Aleksynska
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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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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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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.
Shashitha Jayakody +3 more
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Employment Protection Legislation and Wages [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can be undone by a properly designed labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content to this proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages and on the ...
Giovanni Pica, Marco Leonardi
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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 protection legislation, multinational firms and innovation [PDF]
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010 The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is ambiguous, and empirical evidence has thus far been inconclusive.
Gareth Macartney, Rachel Griffith
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