Feature: Employment protection legislation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cahuc, Pierre; Koeniger, Winfried
• 署名单位: heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne; University of Bonn; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02054.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: F185-F188
• 关键词: costs

摘要

Employment protection legislation (EPL) is an important labour market policy whose strictness differs greatly across OECD countries. The collection of articles in this Feature provides new theoretical and empirical results which highlight the impact of EPL on productivity, job and firm turnover, (un)employment and the incidence of temporary contracts. Importantly, the effect of EPL is shown to differ across types of workers and firms. This yields new insights on the incentives for labour market reform.