The costs of wrongful-discharge laws

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Autor, David H.; Donohue, John J., III; Schwab, Stewart J.
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University; Cornell University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest.88.2.211
• 发表日期: 2006-05
• 页码: 211-231
• 关键词: civil-rights policy; EMPLOYMENT; WILL; PROTECTION; IMPACT; wage

摘要

We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful-discharge protections adopted by U.S. state courts during the last three decades. we find robust evidence that one wrongful-discharge doctrine, the implied-contract exception, reduced state employment rates by 0.8% to 1.7%. The initial impact is largest for female and less-educated workers (those who change jobs frequently), while the longer-term effect is greater for older and more-educated workers (those most likely to litigate). By contrast. we find no robust employment or wage effects of two other widely recoenized wrongful-discharge laws: the public-policy and good-faith exceptions.