
Employment Protection and Unemployment
A Theoretical Analysis Evaluating Recent Policy Proposals
Nikolai Stähler(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 1. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 124 pages
978-3-631-55947-5 (ISBN)
Description
Recently, political discussion about employment protection has again come to the fore in Europe. The most prominent example certainly is the struggle over the Contrat Première Embauche in France in 2006. Many officials claim that the loosening or reorganisation of the employment protection legislation would decrease unemployment because of more flexible labour markets. This is questioned by the advocates of employment protection. The book evaluates - from a theoretical perspective - the possible employment effects of some proposals made, namely an experience-rated unemployment insurance, severance payments, educational decisions and the interaction of employment protection and unionisation.
More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2006
Mainz
Language
English
Place of publication
Frankfurt a.M.
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
4 fig., 3 tables
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-55947-5 (9783631559475)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Nikolai Stähler, born in 1977, studied economics from 1998 until 2003 at the University of Regensburg (Germany) and the Universidad de Cantabria, Santander (Spain). From 2003 until 2006 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Mainz (Germany) and was member of the research group 'Heterogeneous Labor' founded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is currently working at the Department of Economics (Public Finance Division) of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
Content
Contents: Employment protection - Unemployment - Wage bargaining - Experience rating - Severance payments - Education.