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Does job security h...
Does job security hamper employment prospects?
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- Bjuggren, Carl Magnus (author)
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden
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- Skedinger, Per, Adjungerad professor, 1956- (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS),Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden,Linnaeus University Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies
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- Linnaeus University Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies, 2018
- English 35 s.
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Series: Working paper series ; 2018:7
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Abstract
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- We use a reform in the Swedish employment protection legislation (EPL) that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only, to investigate the effect of EPL on the propensity to hire workers who were unemployed or in active labor market programs (ALMPs). The results indicate that less stringent EPL increased the share of workers hired from unemployment. In addition, our results suggest that transitions from some ALMPs to employment increased. Taken together, our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Employment protection
- Active labor market programs
- Unemployment
- Economics
- Nationalekonomi
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- vet (subject category)
- rap (subject category)
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