Labor Market Externalities of Pre-retirement Employment Protection

Arbeitspapier

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or women approaching eligibility. Considering separately incumbent workers and non-employees we find small positive and small negative employment effects for the former and the latter groups, respectively.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16934

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Labor Demand
• Subject: employment protection ; older workers ; labour market policy ; externalities

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Chrostek, Paweł ; Karbownik, Krzysztof ; Myck, Michal
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2024

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