Employment protection and collective bargaining during the great recession: a comprehensive review of international evidence

Adascalitei, Dragos; Khatiwada, Sameer; Malo, Miguel Á.; Morano, Clemente Pignatti

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“…Further, analysis of recent labor market reforms worldwide indicates that not many emerging economies engage in regulatory reform (Adascalitei et al 2015), perhaps for political economy reasons. In Brazil, a country with strong union presence and historically rigid labor laws up until recently, recent reforms to facilitate the use of temporary contracts and outsourcing elicited significant public protests.…”

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Skills and Jobs in Brazil: An Agenda for Youth

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Packard²

2018

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Books in this series are published to communicate the results of Bank research, analysis, and operational experience with the least possible delay. The extent of language editing varies from book to book.This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifically reserved.

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Skills and Jobs in Brazil: An Agenda for Youth

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Packard²

2018

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“…(iii) reproducibility; (iv) transparency; (v) evaluator bias; and (vi) information bias (Kucera 2007). 4 A more detailed description of the trends from the policy compendium is available in Adascalitei et al (2015). 5 Following Duval (2008), this represents a better strategy than simply including in the equation the value of the government net fiscal balance.…”

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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms: Evidence from a novel policy compendium

Adascalitei¹,

Morano

2016

IZA J Labor Policy

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The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment rate, the simultaneous implementation of fiscal consolidation measures and the presence of a fixed exchange rate regime. Differences in the results are explored by looking at the direction of reforms (i.e. increasing or decreasing legislation), temporal horizon (i.e. temporary or permanent measures) and coverage (i.e. complete or two-tier reforms); while also analysing separately reforms' determinants across domains of labour legislation (e.g. permanent contracts, collective dismissals). Finally, we find that deregulatory labour market reforms tend to increase the unemployment rate in the short run when they are approved during contractionary periods-while they have a non-significant effect when approved during periods of economic stability or expansion.

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“…For each change in labour market regulation, we noted together the content of the reform, the respective year of approval, the policy domain where the change intervened as well as whether the reform increased or decreased existing levels of labour market regulation. 4 If a single reform introduced several changes to the legislation (so-called "umbrella laws" or reform packages), these changes were coded separately (see Adascalitei et al 2015 for a detailed description of trends in labour market reforms). 4 For the purpose of the analysis, policy interventions that decrease (increase) existing levels of labour market regulation are considered as those that make hiring and firing procedures less (more) costly and/or less (more) procedurally complicated.…”

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Labour market reforms since the crisis: Drivers and consequences

Adascalitei¹,

Morano²

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The paper analyses the determinants and effects of reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL), using a novel inventory that covers 111 developed and developing countries between 2008 and 2014. The analysis finds that in developed economies, reforms were mostly directed towards relaxing labour regulation and were driven by high unemployment rates and low levels of GDP growth. By contrast, in developing economies reforms tended to increase workers' protection and were more likely to occur in countries experiencing high levels of GDP growth-while not being sensitive to unemployment rates. Furthermore, we test the effects of these reforms on labour market outcomes. We find that deregulation decreases employment rates in both developed and developing countries in the year after implementation. Deregulation also increases unemployment rates in developed economies in the short-term; but the effect is not statistically significant in developing countries.

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Employment protection and collective bargaining during the great recession: a comprehensive review of international evidence

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Skills and Jobs in Brazil: An Agenda for Youth

Skills and Jobs in Brazil: An Agenda for Youth

Drivers and effects of labour market reforms: Evidence from a novel policy compendium

Labour market reforms since the crisis: Drivers and consequences

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