Welfare-Improving Employment Protection

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Citations in the corpus

Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity: A Tale of Two Reforms (2012, unknown): “More stringent EPL provides insurance and may promote speci c investments (Belot et al., 2007); selects the most productive rms which withstand the costs of EPL (Poschke, 2009); makes rms become more selective with workers so that less productive matches are not realized (Lagos, 2006).”
Labor Market Regulations: What Do We Know About Their Impacts in Developing Countries? (2014, unknown): “For example, analyzing OECD countries, Belot, Boone, and van Ours (2007) ﬁnd that stricter EPL increased productivity, but only in environments where workers invested in ﬁrm-speciﬁc skills.”
Setting It Right: Employment Protection, Labour Reallocation and Productivity (2011, unknown): “At the same time, it should be stressed that some degree of job protection, by promoting job stability, may encourage work commitment and investment in firm-specific human capital (see e.g. Akerlof 1984; Soskice 1997; Belot et al. 2007; Pierre and Scarpetta 2004; Acharya et al. 2010).”
The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries (2009, unknown): “Offsetting this factor, employment protection not only protects workers, it also induces human capital accumulation and thus improves productivity (Belot et al. 2007).”