Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35645 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4158
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in the need for reallocation at the sectoral and aggregate level to assess the average effect of EPL on firms' policies. Then, exploiting firm-level information we study if the effect of EPL is stronger in firms with lower levels of internal resources. We find that, on average, EPL reduces investment per worker, capital per worker and value added per worker in high reallocation sectors relative to low reallocation sectors. The reduction in the capital-labour ratio is less pronounced in firms with higher internal resources, suggesting that financial constraints exacerbate the negative effects of EPL on capital deepening.
Subjects: 
Capital-labor substitution
labor market imperfections
financial market imperfections
JEL: 
J21
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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