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Employment Protection and Aggregate Unemployment

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Groenewold, N.
Abstract

The effects on the aggregate unemployment rate of employment-protection provisions has been the subject of considerable debate. This paper shows that if firms pay efficiency wages to encourage effort in the workplace, the effect of increasing employment security is to increase the efficiency wage but not necessarily to increase unemployment.

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Paper provided by Tasmania - Department of Economics in its series Papers with number 1996-05.

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Length: 18 pages
Date of creation: 1996
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Handle: RePEc:fth:tasman:1996-05

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Postal: UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, HOBART TASMANIA 7001 AUSTRALIA.
Phone: +61 3 6226 7672
Fax: +61 3 6226 7587
Web page: http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/business/ecofin/
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Keywords: UNEMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT LABOUR MARKET MANPOWER

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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