This paper provides a critical review of the recent empirical evidence on the links between
regulations affecting the hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity …

We examine the effect of dismissal regulation on productivity in the OECD, using annual
cross-country aggregate data on the stringency of employment protection legislation and …

This article surveys the literature and adds to the evidence on the impact of employment
protection legislation on employment. While stringent employment protection contributes to …

Current theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are
ambiguous. In this paper, I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor …

In this book, Per Skedinger gives an excellent and balanced survey and evaluation of both
the theoretical prediction and the empirical research about the consequences of legislated …

Exploiting a unique dataset including cross-country comparable hiring and separation rates
by type of transition for 24 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and 13years, we …

This article estimates the causal impact of dismissal costs on capital deepening and
productivity, exploiting a reform that introduced unjust‐dismissal costs in Italy for firms below …

This article presents evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a
specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention. I …

This article evaluates an expansion of employer‐mandated sick leave from 80% to 100% of
forgone gross wages in Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference‐in …

This study estimates the effect of employment protection legislation on wages, exploiting the
1990 Italian reform that introduced unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees. We …