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Labour Courts delays and the composition of employment: Is labour encouraged or endangered by institutions?

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  • Giuseppina Gianfreda

    (Università della Tuscia)

  • Giovanna Vallanti

    (LUISS "Guido Carli")

Abstract

Employment protection is the results of labour laws and of institutional factors which are not encompassed in official legislation. Courts? delay is settling labour disputes are among those factors. Using individual data on the Italian workforce for the period 2007-2010 and exploiting the territorial heterogeneity in the duration of labour suits among Italian regions we investigate the effect of labour trial delays on the composition of employment. We fi?nd that Labour Courts'delays hinder the occupation rate for specific categories of workers, i.e. women, young and low skilled people, while increasing the inactivity rate of the same groups; furthermore, long duration of trials reduces the likelyhood of accessing a permanent occupation for the same groups. Finally, it induces a shift from short term to long term unemployment.

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  • Giuseppina Gianfreda & Giovanna Vallanti, 2015. "Labour Courts delays and the composition of employment: Is labour encouraged or endangered by institutions?," Working Papers LuissLab 15121, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, LUISS Guido Carli.
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    Keywords

    EPL; courts; occupation rate; inactive workers; temporary jobs.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • K31 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Labor Law
    • K41 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Litigation Process

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