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Reforming employment protection legislation in France /
Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent contracts unchanged. Recent reforms in France follow this pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
International Monetary Fund, European Dept.,
2006.
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| Colección: | IMF working paper ;
WP/06/108. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent contracts unchanged. Recent reforms in France follow this pattern. Using a search-matching model, we argue that this type of partial reform is inefficient: easing restrictions on temporary jobs fosters both job creation and job destruction, but strict EPL discourages both. The overall impact on equilibrium unemployment is thus ambiguous, depending on the characteristics of the specific labor market. Simulations of the model, calibrated for the French labor market, suggest that the job destruction effect is stronger, thus raising the unemployment rate. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (27 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1282448048 9781282448049 9781451909029 1451909020 1462346782 9781462346783 1451994400 9781451994407 9786613821232 6613821233 |
| ISSN: | 2227-8885 ; |