How does employment protection legislation influence hiring and firing decisions by the smallest firms?

2013 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Millán ◽  
José María Millán ◽  
Concepción Román ◽  
André van Stel
Keyword(s):  
Employment Protection ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Hiring And Firing

scholarly journals Employment protection legislation and SME performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannick Van Landuyt ◽  
Nico Dewaelheyns ◽  
Cynthia Van Hulle
Keyword(s):  
Employment Protection ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Firing Costs ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Labour Contracts ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Hiring And Firing ◽  
Country Specific

This article examines the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance. Rather than relying on country-specific proxies for EPL, as is common in the literature, we compute firm-specific measures of a firm’s exposure to EPL by using a panel dataset of 13,112 Belgian SMEs for the period between 2000 and 2009. The empirical results show that firms perform better when faced with lower hiring and firing costs through the use of more blue-collar labour contracts. The evidence showing improved performance by firms that attempt to achieve greater flexibility by hiring more temporary workers is limited.

The Effects of Employment Protection legislationon Personnel Policies: A Review of Theoretical Modelsand Empirical results

2014 ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
O. Mironenko
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Labour Contracts ◽  
Hiring And Firing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Personnel Policies

Employers incur costs while fulfilling the requirements of employment protection legislation. The article contains a review of the core theoretical models and empirical results concerning the impact of these costs on firms’ practices in hiring, firing, training and remuneration. Overall, if wages are flexible or enforcement is weak, employment protection does not significantly influence employers’ behavior. Otherwise, stringent employment protection results in the reduction of hiring and firing rates, changes in personnel selection criteria, types of labour contracts and dismissal procedures, and, in some cases, it may lead to the growth of wages and firms’ investments to human capital.

Employment Protection Legislation in Haiti

2018 ◽  
pp. 209-221
Author(s):  
Samir Amine ◽  
Wilner Predelus
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Employment Legislation

The merit of employment regulations in a market economy is often measured by their effectiveness in facilitating job creation without jeopardizing the notion of “decent work,” as defined by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Consequently, the recent literature on employment legislation has extensively focused on the flexibility of the labor market, as a fair middle ground is always necessary to avoid undue distortions that can negatively impact the economy and worker's wellbeing. This chapter analyzes the provisions of the labor law in Haiti and how it affects job security and flexibility to observe a flexible structure that rather benefits employers. Notably, labor law in Haiti may have in fact rendered workers more vulnerable because these labor legislations were enacted on the assumption that employers and workers are on the same footing when it comes to industrial relations, while historic facts do not support such an assumption.

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