Job Protection: The Macho Hypothesis

Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

No 1192, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper shows that employment protection is influenced by the male breadwinner conception which is itself shaped by religions. First, by using international individual surveys, we document that Catholics, Muslims and Orthodoxs are more likely to support such "macho values" than Protestants and atheists. Second, we develop a model showing that such a macho bias yields support to job protection legislation. This prediction is strongly supported by OECD panel data regressions including country-fixed effects.

Keywords: political economy; job protection; religion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J20 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2004-06
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Published - published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 390-410

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