The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment: Evidence from a New Survey

Achilleas Anagnostopoulos () and William Siebert ()

No 6504, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece's employment protection law (EPL) and national wage minimum for temporary employment. We find higher temporary employment rates especially among a "grey" market group of workplaces that pay low wages and avoid the national wage minimum. A similar factor boosts family employment. We also find that EPL "matters", in particular, managers who prefer temporary contracts because temps are less protected definitely employ more temps. We discuss whether temporary and family work is a form of escape from regulation for less prosperous firms.

Keywords: temporary work; Greece; employment protection; national wage agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J38 J41 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2012-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Published - published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2015, 26 (18), 2366-2393

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