Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
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- David H. Autor & William R. Kerr & Adriana D. Kugler, 2007. "Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States," NBER Working Papers 12860, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Dismissal Costs; Employment Fluctuations; Entry and Exit; Labor Productivity; TFP; Entrepreneurship;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- 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
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2007-04-09 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-LAB-2007-04-09 (Labour Economics)
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