Do Employment Protection Reforms Affect Well-Being?

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This paper examines reforms in German employment protection for permanent workers (EPLP) on workers' well-being proxied by life satisfaction. Using variation in how the reforms affected firms of different sizes, I apply a difference-in-differences approach in conjunction with individual fixed effects. I find that life satisfaction of temporary workers decreases by around 0.5 (11-point scale) when EPLP decreases. I investigate effect heterogeneity and discuss mechanisms. Placebo tests are conducted. An increase in EPLP had no effect. Due to the design of the EPLP reforms, the majority of permanent workers did not face major changes in EPLP.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9114

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
• Thema: life satisfaction ; well-being ; employment protection reforms ; quasi-experiment ; difference-in-difference

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dräger, Vanessa
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/113997
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ