Firing Costs, Employment Fluctuations and Average Employment
An Examination of Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9724368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Hunt (0000-0003-3852-729X, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 266 |
| Pages | 177-202 |
| Publication date | 2000-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0335.00203 |
| OpenAlex | W1988607727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed‐term contracts and increased the number of dismissals above which the employer is required to establish a ‘social plan’ (involving severance payments). I assess the effect of this reduction in ‘firing costs’ on movements in employment, using monthly data on a panel of detailed manufacturing industries for 1977‐92. I also examine the effect of introducing flexible hours of work in certain industries beginning in 1985. I find that employment adjustment was unaffected by the lower firing costs, but slowed by the greater working hours flexibility
Business · Collar · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Employment protection legislation · Flexibility (engineering) · Labour economics · Legislation · Panel data · Payment · Promotion (chess) · Severance · Unemployment · Finance · German Economic Analysis & Policies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2018 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |