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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Employment protection legislation"”.
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The impact of the hiring and firing decision of employment protection legislation on unemployment in South Africa
The impact of strict employment protection legislation (EPL) on unemployment is still uncertain. However, evidence in literature points to the hiring and firing provisions of EPL being the source of some of the labour market rigidity in South Africa.Hiring and firing provisions comprise a number of …
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Foreign direct investment: causes and consequences. The determinants of inward and outward FDI and their relationship with economic growth
… In addition, trade openness and flexible employment protection legislation in the host country attract FDI inflows. In terms of FDI outflows, the results show that FDI outflows reduce economic growth in the home country, while economic growth in the home country increases FDI outflows. …
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Essays on European labor markets
… being new to the country, are less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights. I test this hypothesis drawing on evidence for the EU and on two natural experiments for Spain and Italy. The results suggest that stricter Employment Protection Legislation …
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Essays in Innovation, Automation, and Growth
… manufacturing sectors, and use it to compute the employment and labor share consequences of progress in automation technology. A fall in the relative price of robots leads to relatively few jobs losses, while reductions in adjustment costs, or improvements in relative robot productivity, can be …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… innovation choices. We study the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on firms’ innovation, through an event-study analysis of labor market reforms occurring in Europe over 2000-2016. Data from the Community Innovation Survey reveal that substantial drops in EPL for temporary …
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QUALIFICATION MISMATCH AND OCCUPATIONAL CHANGE: THE ROLE OF DEMAND, SUPPLY AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS IN EXPLAINING CROSS-NATIONAL VARIATIONS
… training, and adult training. Stricter employment protection legislation for regular contracts and collective dismissals mitigates the “hollowing out” in the middle, while the impact of the minimum wage on employment in low-skilled jobs appears to be limited. The evidence further …