Does job security hamper employment prospects?

Arbeitspapier

We investigate the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on the propensity to hire workers from unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only. Using administrative data from Sweden, we find that less stringent EPL increased the share of workers hired from unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1255

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Labor Law ; Public Economics: Miscellaneous Issues: General
• Thema: Employment protection ; Active labor market programs ; Unemployment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bjuggren, Carl Magnus ; Skedinger, Per
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (wo): Stockholm
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/210896
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ