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Severance pay programs around the world: History, rationale, status, and reforms

The paper examines severance pay programs around the world by providing the first ever overview of existing programs, examining their historic development, assessing their economic rationale and describing current reform attempts. While a significant part of the paper is devoted to a comprehensive 183 cross country review of existing severance arrangements and their characteristics, the paper goes beyond a mere description. It develops and empirically tests three hypotheses about the economic rationale of the program, namely severance pay being: (i) a primitive income protection program, (ii) an efficiency enhancing human resource instrument, and (iii) a job protection instrument. The paper also reviews the recent reforms of Austria, Chile, Italy and Korea.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5731

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Labor Law
Thema
severance pay
termination benefit
end-of-service benefit
termination benefits
seniority pay
indemnities
leaving allowances

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Holzmann, Robert
Pouget, Yann
Vodopivec, Milan
Weber, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201106013458
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Holzmann, Robert
  • Pouget, Yann
  • Vodopivec, Milan
  • Weber, Michael
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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