Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35981 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4685
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the levels of employment and unemployment have been extensively studied, but nothing is known empirically about their well-being implications. Using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel, the author conducts the first study of the link between both EPL and RTE and workers' wellbeing. The results provide evidence that both permanent and temporary employees gain from reforms that ease restrictions on temporary employment but leave firing costs for permanent workers unchanged. This finding contrasts with common claims found in the political economy literature.
Subjects: 
Temporary employment
employment protection legislation
job satisfaction
JEL: 
J28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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