Age‐Dependent Employment Protection

Employment protection and unemployment

The second factor often mentioned in discussions of European unemployment is employment protection (the first, unernploymenr benefits, was the topic of the previous note). Employment protection, the argument goes, increases the cost of doing business, leads to sclerosis of the economy, and to high unemployment. The purpose of this note is to assess both the theoretical and the empirical merits ...

The Economics of Employment Protection

The Economics of Employment Protection Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical background, we chart the course of the modern empirical literature. We focus mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development an...

Employment Protection and Sickness Absence

An exemption in the Swedish Employment Security Act (LAS) in 2001 made it possible for employers with a maximum of ten employees to exempt two workers from the seniority rule at times of redundancies. Using this within-country enforcement variation, the relationship between employment protection and sickness absence among employees is examined. The average treatment effect from the exemption is...

Redesigning the Employment Protection System∗

Self-employment, educational attainment and employment protection legislation

► We use a theoretical model of self-employment and test its implications empirically. ► Our contribution is to allow for an interaction with educational attainment. ► Employment protection reduces self-employment rather for highly educated workers. ► Inclusion of interaction necessary to assess the effect of employment protection. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o We analyse how educationa...