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| Title: | | Globalization and Protection of Employment  |
| Authors: | | Fischer, Justina A. V. Somogyi, Frank |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | KOF working papers // KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich 238 |
| Abstract: | | Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests this hypothesis in a panel of 28 OECD countries from 1985 to 2003, differentiating between three dimensions of globalization and two labor market segments. While overall globalization is shown to loosen protection of the regularly employed, it increases regulation in the segment of limited-term contracts. We find the economic one to drive deregulation for the regularly employed, but the social one to be responsible for the better protection of workers in atypical employment. We offer political economy arguments as explanations for these differential effects. |
| Subjects: | | Globalization international trade integration employment protection labor standards unions cross-country analysis panel data analysis |
| JEL: | | C33 F15 F16 J81 J83 O57 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005899621 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | KOF Working Papers, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, ETH Zürich
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