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Title: The Effects of Employment Protection: Learning from Variable Enforcement

Author(s): Tito Boeri and Juan F Jimeno

Publication Date: June 2003

Keyword(s): efficiency wages, employment protection and job loss

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: Employment protection legislations (EPL) are not enforced uniformly across the board. There are a number of exemptions to the coverage of these provisions: firms below a given threshold scale and workers with temporary contracts are not subject to the most restrictive provisions. This within-country variation in enforcement allows making inferences on the impact of EPL that go beyond the usual cross-country approach. In this Paper we develop a simple model that explains why these exemptions are in place to start with. Then we empirically assess the effects of EPL on dismissal probabilities, based on a double-difference approach. Our results are in line with the predictions of the theoretical model. Workers in firms exempted from EPL are more likely to be laid-off. We do not observe this effect in the case of temporary workers.

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Boeri, T and Jimeno, J. 2003. 'The Effects of Employment Protection: Learning from Variable Enforcement'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=3926