relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2577/
title: Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection
creator: Vindigni, Andrea
creator: Scotti, Simone
creator: Tealdi, Cristina
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: HD Industries. Land use. Labor
description: This paper investigates social preferences over employment protection regulation in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand and sheds some light on the comparative dynamics of Eurosclerosis. When firing costs are low, a transition to a rigid labor market is favored by all the employed workers with idiosyncratic productivity below some threshold; when their status quo level is high, preserving a rigid labor market is favored only by the employed with intermediate productivity. A more volatile environment and a lower rate of productivity growth increase the political support for labor market rigidity only in high-rents economies.
publisher: University of Chicago Press
date: 2015-01
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Vindigni, Andrea and Scotti, Simone and Tealdi, Cristina  Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection.  Journal of Labor Economics, 33 (1).  pp. 209-267.  ISSN 0734-306X      (2015)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/678306
relation: doi:10.1086/678306