DISCRIMINATION AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION

DISAGGREGATING EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION : THE CASE OF DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION Christine

Studies of the effects of employment protection frequently examine protective legislation as a whole. From a policy reform perspective, however, it is often critical to know which particular aspect of the legislation is responsible for its observed effects. The American with Disabilities Act (ADA), a 1990 federal law covering over 40 million Americans, is a clear case in point. Several empirica...

Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination

Studies of the effects of employment protection frequently examine protective legislation as a whole. From a policy reform perspective, however, it is often critical to know which particular aspect of the legislation is responsible for its observed effects. The American with Disabilities Act (ADA), a 1990 federal law covering over 40 million Americans, is a clear case in point. Several empirica...

Employment protection and unemployment

The second factor often mentioned in discussions of European unemployment is employment protection (the first, unernploymenr benefits, was the topic of the previous note). Employment protection, the argument goes, increases the cost of doing business, leads to sclerosis of the economy, and to high unemployment. The purpose of this note is to assess both the theoretical and the empirical merits ...

Discrimination in Employment

Employment Protection and Sickness Absence

An exemption in the Swedish Employment Security Act (LAS) in 2001 made it possible for employers with a maximum of ten employees to exempt two workers from the seniority rule at times of redundancies. Using this within-country enforcement variation, the relationship between employment protection and sickness absence among employees is examined. The average treatment effect from the exemption is...