The Economic Significance of Laws Relating to Employment Protection and Different Forms of Employment: Analysis of a Panel of 117 Countries, 1990-2013
The Economic Significance of Laws Relating to Employment Protection and Different Forms of Employment: Analysis of a Panel of 117 Countries, 1990-2013
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10.2139/ssrn.3184784
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2018-05
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Zoe Adams;L. Bishop;S. Deakin;Colin Fenwick;Sara Martinsson Garzelli;Giudy Rusconi
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Zoe Adams;L. Bishop;S. Deakin;Colin Fenwick;Sara Martinsson Garzelli;Giudy Rusconi
本文介绍了基于商业研究中心劳动法规指数（CBR-LRI）的劳动法数据集的分析结果，该指数最近已扩展到涵盖117个国家和1970年至2013年期间。数据集显示，随着时间的推移，特别是自1990年代后期以来，规范不同形式就业（DFE）的法律，包括兼职工作，定期就业和代理工作，已变得更具保护性。自20世纪70年代以来，涵盖个人解雇、集体协商和共同决定权的就业保护法的保护性越来越强。自2008年主权债务危机爆发以来，欧洲的EPL水平有所下降，但与1970年代开始的早期保护增加相比，这一趋势平均较小，其他区域也没有复制。使用非固定面板数据方法进行的时间序列计量经济学分析表明，加强与DFE和EPL相关的工人保护与劳动力在国民收入中所占份额的增加、劳动力参与率的提高、就业率的增加和失业率的下降有关，尽管与更广泛的经济趋势相比，观察到的幅度很小。
This paper presents findings from analysis of a dataset of labour laws, based on the Centre for Business Research Labour Regulation Index (CBR-LRI), which has recently been extended to cover 117 countries and the period from 1970 to 2013. The dataset shows that laws regulating different forms of employment (DFE), including part-time work, fixed-term employment and agency work, have become significantly more protective over time, in particular since the late 1990s. Employment protection laws (EPL), covering individual dismissal, collective consultation and codetermination rights, have become steadily more protective since the 1970s. Europe has seen a decline in the level of EPL since the onset of the sovereign debt crisis in 2008, but this trend is small, on average, by comparison to earlier increases in protection beginning in the 1970s, and has not been replicated in other regions. Time-series econometric analysis using non-stationary panel data methods suggests that strengthening worker protection in relation to DFE and EPL is associated with an increase in labour's share of national income, rising labour force participation, rising employment, and falling unemployment, although the observed magnitudes are small when set against wider economic trends.