Reforming employment protection legislation in France / / prepared by Jianping Zhou

• Autore: Zhou Jianping
• Pubblicazione: [Washington, D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, European Dept., 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (29 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Labor laws and legislation - France - Econometric models; Industrial laws and legislation - France
• Note generali: "April 2006."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION LEGISLATION (EPL) IN FRANCE""; ""III. LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""IV. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK""; ""V. SIMULATION RESULTS""; ""VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS""; ""REFERENCES""
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent contracts unchanged. Recent reforms in France follow this pattern. Using a search-matching model, we argue that this type of partial reform is inefficient: easing restrictions on temporary jobs fosters both job creation and job destruction, but strict EPL discourages both. The overall impact on equilibrium unemployment is thus ambiguous, depending on the characteristics of the specific labor market. Simulations of the model, calibrated for the French labor market, suggest that the job destruction effect is stronger, thus raising the unemployment rate.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reforming Employment Protection Legislation in France
• ISBN: 1-4623-4678-2; 1-4519-9440-0; 1-282-44804-8; 9786613821232; 1-4519-0902-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821268703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF working paper ; ; WP/06/108.