Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26506 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2461
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Reforms of employment protection (EPL) in Europe eased the recourse to temporary forms of employment while not reducing the strictness of EPL of permanent jobs (with the exception of Spain). Since 1990, such two-tier reforms have been implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. The paper seeks to show why two-tier reforms of EPL have taken place in some countries and have failed on other occasions. This is done by having a loser look at the history of national reform processes. In addition the paper seeks to determine whether two-tier reforms later led to EPL reforms for permanent jobs.
Subjects: 
Employment protection
two-tier reforms
political economy
JEL: 
J63
J65
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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