Meta-Analyse des Einflusses der Arbeitsschutzgesetzgebung auf das Niveau der Arbeitslosigkeit und Beschäftigung

Johanna Kemper ()
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Johanna Kemper: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, http://www.kof.ethz.ch

KOF Analysen, 2016, vol. 10, issue 3, 111-128

Abstract: This meta-analysis examines the effect of employment protection legislation on the unemployment and employment level. Based on the results of 72, respectively 42, studies, that analyze this topic, I find no statistically significant effect on the unemployment level and a slightly negative effect on the employment level. A separate regression for 13 studies yields that stricter employment protection legislation increases the unemployment level by 0.62 to 0.64 percentage points. Quality differences between the studies that exploit cross-country variation in order to identify the effect of employment protection legislation, lead to general doubts about the results of these studies.

Keywords: Labor Economics Policies; Unemployment: Models; Duration; Incidence; and Job Search; Severance Pay; Labor Force and Employment; Size; and Structure; Institutions and the Macroeconomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 J08 J21 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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