Optimal Spatial Allocation of Labour Force and Employment Protection Legislation (EPL)
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Population Labour Force and Employment
At the time of independence in 1947, 32.5 million people lived in Pakistan. By 2006-07, the population is estimated to have reached 156.77 million. Thus in roughly three generations, Pakistan’s population has increased by 124.27 million or has grown at an average rate of 2.6 percent per annum. While Pakistan has more mouths to feed, more families to house, more children to educate, and more peo...
متن کاملEmployment protection legislation, multinational firms and innovation
The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is ambiguous, and empirical evidence has thus far been inconclusive. EPL increases job security and the greater enforceability of job contracts may increase worker investment in innovative activity. On the other hand EPL increases adjustment costs faced by firms, and this may lead to unde...
متن کاملThe Effects of Employment Protection Legislation
This paper investigates the effects of employment protection legislation on the rates of worker flows, job reallocation, and churning flows by examining the case of Taiwan. Our study’s empirical identification takes advantage of the natural experiment created by Taiwan’s enactment of Labor Standards Law, which substantially increases the costs of firing an employee, in 1984 and the subsequent m...
متن کاملSelf-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...
متن کاملEmployment protection legislation in central and east European countries
This article presents updated indicators of employment protection legislation for several central and eastern European countries according to OECD methodology. Common patterns and outliers are identified and additional information is provided to interpret correctly the strictness of the regulatory environment. The aim is to provide some hard evidence for the debate regarding the interface betwe...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2083-8298
DOI: 10.2478/bog-2019-0023