Einstellungschancen von Älteren – Wie wirkt der Schwellenwert im Kündigungsschutz?

Derik Burgert
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Derik Burgert: LEUPHANA University Lüneburg,Department of Economic, Behaviour and Law Sciences, Research Institute on Professions (Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB))

No 62, FFB-Discussionpaper from Research Institute on Professions (Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB)), LEUPHANA University Lüneburg

Abstract: The liberalisation of job protection is an often mentioned proposal to increase labour market flexibility. It is applied on businesses which exceed a certain limit of employees. The thesis we want to examine is that this limit detains small businesses from hiring more employees. Changes in this limitation during the late 1990s are the basis for the estimation of this effect by using a regression discontinuity design. Local treatment effects can be estimated nonparametrically. This contribution is the first that uses the above-named amendments to control for self-selection with minimal assumptions of the model specification. The results correspond with earlier results which could not make out any employment repressive effects.

Keywords: dismissals protection; treatment-effects; self-selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2006-06
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