Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106912 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 320
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
In our paper, we analyze the impact of German employment protection legislation on the firms' employment adjustment patterns. We explore a reform of the Protection Against Dismissal Act (PADA) in 2004 that decreased the employment protection in small establishments and thus generated a quasi-experiment. Extending previous studies we distinguish between open-ended and fixed-term contracts, as the latter might be used to circumvent the PADA. Difference-in-differences estimations based on IAB Establishment Panel data show no overall effect of the reform on firms' employment adjustment patterns. However, the proportion of hirings based on fixed-term contracts decreases.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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