Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/219636 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Institute of Economic Research Working Papers No. 20/2015
Publisher: 
Institute of Economic Research (IER), Toruń
Abstract: 
The aim of this research was to identify determinants of the employment protection legislation reforms in the global perspective. The study was based on the Labor Freedom index published by the Heritage Foundation, which allowed to include 179 countries in the research that were observed in the period 2003-2013. The conducted research has indicated that changes in GDP and the level of employment in industry may induce the introduction of labor reforms. The changes in the labor law also occurred to be correlated with the number of the nearly excluded from the labor market (the long-term unemployed and youth not in education, employment or training) and also with changes in the government expenditure. However, all these factors may lead to substantially various reform programs in particular countries due to the heterogeneous political pressure of the labor market interest groups and different governmental determination in introduction of the reforms.
Subjects: 
political economics
employment protection legislation
labor law
labor market institutions
labor market policy
JEL: 
D02
D78
J08
J32
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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