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| Title: | | Job Protection : The Macho Hypothesis  |
| Authors: | | Cahuc, Pierre Algan, Yann |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 1192 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | job protection political economy religion |
| JEL: | | J16 J20 J71 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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