Employment security and dismissal protection

Abstract

"The chapter is organized as follows. Section 1 discusses the basic characteristics of modern employment relationships and their implications for devising 'efficient' governance rules for employment terminations that mitigate the risks of both market and policy failures. This discussion yields a set of theoretically derived criteria for assessing the economic impacts of employment-security regimes and a list of questions that evaluations of dismissal-protection regimes ideally need to address. Section 2 presents a brief characterization of contrasting legal dismissal-protection regimes, particulary the European statutory approach versus the American common.law apporach, and contains a critical discussion of attemts to classifiy countries by the 'relative restricitiveness' of idsmissal-protection regulations. Section 3 provides an overview of the methodological approaches taken by previous performance assessment and impact evaluation studies and of different indicators used for measuring the effects of employment-security regulation on labour market outsomes. Section 4 summarizes the stat of knowledge and outlines perspectives for future research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Buechtemann, C. & Walwei, U. (1996): Employment security and dismissal protection. In: G. Schmid, J. O'Reilly & K. Schömann (Hrsg.) (1996): International handbook of labour market policy and evaluation, p. 652-693.