How Large are Firing Costs? A Cross-Country Study

Dennis Wesselbaum

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper provides evidence for the size of firing costs for eight countries. In contrast to the existing literature, we use the optimality conditions obtained in a search and matching model to find a reduced form equation for firing costs. We find that our estimates are slightly larger compared with other studies. Finally, we offer three explanations for the observed cross-country patterns.

Keywords: Employment protection; Firing costs; Optimality conditions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 J41 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06-23
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab and nep-ore
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/58762/1/MPRA_paper_58762.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: How Large Are Firing Costs? A Cross-Country Study (2020)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:58762

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().