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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorDolado, Juan José
dc.contributor.authorJansen, Marcel
dc.contributor.authorJimeno, Juan F.
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-02T10:26:48Z
dc.date.available2008-12-02T10:26:48Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractIn many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms targeted at lowering the firing costs of a particular group of workers, and compare the results with those stemming from a comprehensive reform that reduces firing costs for all workers. The model is calibrated for the Spanish economy, where an important reform of this kind took place in 1997. Overall, our results point out that EPL reforms achieve the largest reduction in unemployment when they are targeted to workers with lower and more volatile productivity.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationThe BE Journal of Macroeconomics, 2007, 7, 1, 28 p.
dc.identifier.issn1935-1690
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/3204
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBerkeley Electronic Press (Berkeley)
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.bepress.com/bejm/vol7/iss1/art14
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.otherfiring costs
dc.subject.otherunemployment
dc.subject.othermatching
dc.titleA Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
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