Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58538 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6504
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece's employment protection law (EPL) and national wage minimum for temporary employment. We find higher temporary employment rates especially among a grey market group of workplaces that pay low wages and avoid the national wage minimum. A similar factor boosts family employment. We also find that EPL matters, in particular, managers who prefer temporary contracts because temps are less protected definitely employ more temps. We discuss whether temporary and family work is a form of escape from regulation for less prosperous firms.
Subjects: 
temporary work
Greece
employment protection
national wage agreements
JEL: 
J38
J41
J81
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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