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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 tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental setting.
Marco Leonardi, Giovanni Pica
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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.
Werner Liebregts, E. Stam
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Employment Protection Legislation, Multinational Firms, and Innovation [PDF]
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013 Abstract The theoretical effects of labor regulations, such as employment protection legislation (EPL), on innovation is ambiguous. EPL increases job security, and the greater enforceability of job contracts may increase worker investment in innovative activity. But EPL increases firms' adjustment costs, which may lead to underinvestment
Rachel Griffith, Gareth Macartney
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Social Science Research Network, 2022 This study exploits individual data from the 8th wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the SHARE Corona Survey to investigate the mental health consequences of COVID-19 job disruption across different European ...
Cinzia Di Novi +2 more
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Employment Protection Legislation and Labor Markets in Transition: Assessing the Effects of the Labor Code in Armenia [PDF]
The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010 The effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on a country's labor market are clear in theory but empirical evidence is only starting to catch up.
Hartwell, Christopher A.
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Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation: evidence from Italy [PDF]
IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014 Abstract 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 the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the different degree of job security ...
Vincenzo Scoppa, Daniela Vuri
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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.
Mariya Aleksynska, Friederike Eberlein
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Self-Employment, Educational Attainment and Employment Protection Legislation
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 We analyse how educational attainment and employment protection influence an individual’s decision to become self-employed. By altering expected income from dependent employment, employment protection is likely to affect an individual’s choice of occupation, although such a link has not been established in the literature so far.
Tobias Brändle, Florian Baumann
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Measures of de facto employment protection legislation
Management, 2019 Research Question: The aim of this paper is to construct a numerical measure of EPL which takes into consideration the implementation of legislation and employment structure.
Maja Jandric
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How does employment protection legislation affect labor investment inefficiencies?
Research In International Business and Finance, 2023 Rafael Palmeira +2 more
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