Arbeitspapier

Employment protection and firm-level job reallocation: Adjusting for coverage

This paper finds that employment protection legislation (EPL) had a significant impact on employment adjustment in Europe over 2001-2013, once we account for firm-size related exemptions to EPL. We construct a novel coverage-adjusted EPL indicator and find that EPL hinders employment growth at the firm level and increases the share of firms that remain in the same size class. This suggests that stricter EPL restrains job creation because firms fear the costs of shedding jobs during downturns. We do not find evidence that EPL has positive effects on employment by limiting job losses after adverse shocks. In addition to standard controls for the share of credit-constrained firms and the position in the business cycle, we also control for sizerelated corporate tax exemptions and find that these also significantly constrain job creation among incumbent firms.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IWH-CompNet Discussion Papers ; No. 5/2019

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Labor Economics Policies
Thema
employment protection
firm growth
job reallocation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Marzinotto, Benedicta
Wintr, Ladislav
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)
(wo)
Halle (Saale)
(wann)
2019

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-115323
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Marzinotto, Benedicta
  • Wintr, Ladislav
  • Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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