Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/226340 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IAAEU Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 07/2020
Publisher: 
University of Trier, Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU), Trier
Abstract: 
Employment protection legislation may affect the degree of substitutability among different types of labour contracts by changing the individuals sorting into jobs and firms screening in and out jobs. Using administrative data, we document this substitutability in the context of a labour market reform that changed the informative content of individual dismissals and provided incentives to training contracts in Italy in 2012. We present and simulate a model that shows that individual's and firm's behaviour have important implications for the impact of policies that lower firing costs. A more flexible employment protection legislation regime combined with incentives to training contracts reduces inefficiencies of job sorting and screening due to asymmetric information.
Subjects: 
Human Capital
Employment Protection Legislation
Asymmetric-information
JEL: 
J24
J63
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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