Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
By Thomas K. Bauer, Stefan Bender, Holger Bonin. Social Science Research Network, 2007
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Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes in the threshold scale exempting small establishments from dismissal protection provisions on worker flows. In contrast to the predictions of the theory, our results indicate that there are no statistically significant effects of the dismissal protection legislation on worker turnover.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Administration
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Citations in the corpus
- Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data (2013, background): “By contrast, insignificant effects are found by Bauer et al. (2007), Martins (2009) and von Below and Thoursie (2010) – who look at the impact of small-firm exemptions on worker turnover in Germany, Portugal and Sweden, respectively – possibly because of the small economic significance of the exempt”
- Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap (2007, unknown): “20See Bauer, Bender, and Bonin (2004) for more details on dismissal protection in Germany.”
- Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation (2013, unknown): “It is noteworthy that EPL seems to have small or no threshold effects on the firm size distribution also in Germany, where a 10-employee threshold applies (Wagner et al., 2001; Bauer et al., 2007).”
- Setting It Right: Employment Protection, Labour Reallocation and Productivity (2011, unknown): “Bauer et al. (2007) look at changes of small-firm exemption thresholds on worker turnover using German matched employer-employee data and find that such exemptions had no impact.”