Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence from US States

By David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, Adriana D. Kugler. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration

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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? (2009, background): “Dunne et al. (1989a,b), McGuckin and Peck (1992), Davis et al. (1996), and Autor et al. (2007) provide additional details on entry patterns in the manufacturing sector.”
Big Constraints to Small Firms’ Growth? Business Environment and Employment Growth across Firms (2009, background): “…on firms’ adjustment and on labor market outcomes more generally (a few recent examples are Besley and Burgess 2004; Botero et al. 2004; Haltiwanger, Scarpetta, and Schweiger 2006; Micco and Pagés 2006; Petrin and Sivadasan 2006; Autor, Kerr, and Kugler 2007; and Almeida and Carneiro 2009).”
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation (2009, methodology): “This analysis employed reallocation metrics similar to Davis et al. (1996) and Autor et al. (2007).”
Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make (2009, unknown): “…level data; Ichino and Riphahn (2005) finds that absenteeism triples when workers in an Italian bank reach the end of their probationary period; and Autor et al. (2007) reports effects of the good faith exception to employment-at-will of approximately 2% in terms of total factor productivity using…”
Employment Protection Legislation, Multinational Firms, and Innovation (2012, background): “Autor et al. (2007) find using variation in the adoption of wrongful discharge protection across U.S. states that, although increased dismissal costs increase labor productivity, they are associated with lower total factor productivity.”
Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship (2009, unknown): “The coe¢ cient values for the leads and lags in ( 2 ) are relative to the period three years before the reforms and earlier; by comparison, the post indicators in (1) are relative to the period immediately before the reforms.”
What Drives the Dynamics of Business Growth (2016, background): “Strong EPL is also negatively correlated to job creation by entrants (Autor et al, 2007 for evidence on the United States and Kugler and Pica, 2008 for Italy), which may be explained by the potentially lower present value of the future stream of profits for entrants if firing costs are high…”
Entrepreneurship as Experimentation (2014, unknown): “ability of firms to adjust their workforce rapidly, and in that way acting as an effective tax on employment adjustments (Autor et al., 2007).”
The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries (2009, unknown): “Autor et al. (2007) study the impact of adoption of wrongful-discharge protection norms in the US, using cross-state differences in the timing of adoption.”
Little innovation, many jobs. An econometric analysis of the Italian labour productivity crisis (2010, background): “Autor et al. (2007) analysed the effects of dismissal protection (envisaged as legal exceptions, adopted by some state courts in the USA, to the ‘employment-at-will’ common law doctrine) on a sample of US firms, finding a positive effect of employment protection on capital investment, skills and…”
Labour Regulation and Employment Dynamics at the State Level in India (2009, background): “Recent evidence of the TFP–turnover link has also been found across US states (Autor et al., 2007).”