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What determines the reforms of employment protection legislation? A global perspective

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  • Michal Pilc

    (Poznan University of Economics)

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The aim of this research was to identify determinants of the employment protection legislation reforms in the global perspective. The study was based on the Labor Freedom index published by the Heritage Foundation, which allowed to include 179 countries in the research that were observed in the period 2003-2013. The conducted research has indicated that changes in GDP and the level of employment in industry may induce the introduction of labor reforms. The changes in the labor law also occurred to be correlated with the number of the nearly excluded from the labor market (the long-term unemployed and youth not in education, employment or training) and also with changes in the government expenditure. However, all these factors may lead to substantially various reform programs in particular countries due to the heterogeneous political pressure of the labor market interest groups and different governmental determination in introduction of the reforms.

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  • Michal Pilc, 2015. "What determines the reforms of employment protection legislation? A global perspective," Working Papers 20/2015, Institute of Economic Research, revised Mar 2015.
    • Handle: RePEc:pes:wpaper:2015:no20
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    1. Sophia Fauser & Michael Gebel, 2023. "Labour Market Dualism and the Heterogeneous Wage Gap for Temporary Employment. A Multilevel Study across 30 Countries," LIS Working papers 853, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.

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    • D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
    • J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions

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