Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/66726 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Citation: 
[Journal:] Estudios de Economía [ISSN:] 0718-5286 [Volume:] 34 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía [Place:] Santiago de Chile [Year:] 2007 [Pages:] 109-139
Publisher: 
Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía, Santiago de Chile
Abstract: 
This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This mechanism is based on the relative costs of dismissing young versus older workers resulting from job security provisions that are related to tenure. Using 39 consecutive annual household-surveys from Chile, we find that job security is associated with a substantial decline in the wage employment-to-population rate of young workers. In contrast, we do not find such a decline in young self-employment rates or in the wage employment rates of older workers. Comparing results for men and women and using measures of relative dismissal costs, we find that the adverse effect of job security on youth employment is driven by the link between severance payments and tenure. We also find that job security does not have a significant impact on overall aggregate employment, participation or unemployment rates.
Subjects: 
job security
employment composition
severance pay
Chile
job tenure
JEL: 
E24
J23
J65
Document Type: 
Article

Files in This Item:
File
Size
375.57 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.