The Effect of EPL on the Conversion Rate of Temporary Contracts into Permanent contracts
Emanuele Grassi
Giornale degli Economisti, 2009, vol. 68, issue 2, 211-231
Abstract:
This paper analyzes the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on the conversion rate of temporary contracts into permanent ones in the same firm. Once EPL is enforced, two effects might arise: employers could tend to replace their permanent workforce with short-term employment because of the lower expected value of a filled job, but firms might also prefer to stabilize part of their temporary workforce both to reduce the uncertainty of costly job-breakups and to increase the matching surplus. Which of these two effects is dominant is ultimately an empirical question, and we exploit a natural experiment yielded by the Italian 1990 reform which introduced unjust dismissal costs for small businesses to identify the effect of EPL on the conversion rate of working and training contracts (Contratti di formazione e lavoro - CFL) into permanent ones in the same firm. We find that more stringent EPL acts positively on the conversion rates, and that the estimates remain similar for different robustness checks.
Keywords: Dismissal Costs; Temporary Contracts; Difference-in-Differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J41 J63 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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