Mandatory costs by firm size thresholds: firm location, growth and death in Sri Lanka
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Mandatory costs by firm size thresholds: firm location, growth and death in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s Termination of Employment of Workmen Act (TEWA) requires that firms with 15 or more workers justify layoffs and provide generous severance pay to displaced workers, with smaller firms being exempted. Although formally subject to TEWA, firms in Export Promotion Zones (EPZs) do not face the same constraints as nonEPZ firms due to size incentives and lax labor law enforcement in that s...
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عنوان ژورنال: IZA Journal of Labor & Development
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2193-9020
DOI: 10.1186/s40175-014-0023-1