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Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence From US States

The Economic journal (London), 2007-06, Vol.117 (521), p.F189-F217 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 2007 Royal Economic Society ;Copyright Blackwell Publishers Jun 2007 ;ISSN: 0013-0133 ;EISSN: 1468-0297 ;DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02055.x ;CODEN: ECJOAB

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Title:
Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence From US States
Author: Autor, David H ; Kerr, William R ; Kugler, Adriana D
Subjects: Capital investments ; Cost efficiency ; Economic fluctuations ; Economic impact analysis ; Empirical research ; Employment ; Employment termination ; Feature: Employment Protection Legislation ; Good faith ; Good faith estimates ; Implied contracts ; Labour economics ; Labour productivity ; Labour relations ; Legal protection ; Macroeconomics ; Market entry ; Productivity ; Protection ; Public policy ; Regional economics ; Studies ; Trade unionism ; U.S.A ; Wrongful discharge
Is Part Of: The Economic journal (London), 2007-06, Vol.117 (521), p.F189-F217
Description: Theory predicts that mandated employment protection may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge protection by state courts in the US from 1970 to 1999 to evaluate the empirical link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Census Bureau, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protection reduces employment flows and firm entry rates. Moreover, plants engage in capital deepening and experience a decline in total factor productivity, indicative of altered production techniques. Evidence of strong contemporaneous growth in employment, however, leads us to view our findings as suggestive but tentative.
Publisher: Oxford, UK: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0013-0133
EISSN: 1468-0297
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02055.x
CODEN: ECJOAB
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence From US States

Copyright 2007 Royal Economic Society ;Copyright Blackwell Publishers Jun 2007 ;ISSN: 0013-0133 ;EISSN: 1468-0297 ;DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02055.x ;CODEN: ECJOAB

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