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    An essay on the generational effect of employment protection

    Chen, Y.-F. and Zoega, Gylfi (2009) An essay on the generational effect of employment protection. Working Paper. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.

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    Abstract

    This paper provides an explanation for the observed positive relationship between youth unemployment and the cost of firing workers. When the cost of firing workers is high, firms only fire when the present discounted value of future losses is high, in which case they gain little by postponing the firing decision in the hope that productivity will recover. The young workers are then the first to go due to their longer remaining tenure. In contrast, when the cost of firing workers is low, the present discounted value of future losses is small at the firing margin and firms may choose to wait in the hope of a recovery. In this case they may choose to fire the older workers first since the younger ones are more likely to be around when productivity recovers.

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    Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
    Additional Information: BWPEF 0915
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Age-structure, tenure, firing decisions, real options
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Applied Macroeconomics, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2013 14:07
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:06
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7606

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