Feature: Employment Protection Legislation
本专题文章提供新的理论和实证结果，揭示就业保护立法对生产率、企业更替、失业及临时合同的影响，并发现其对不同工人和企业的影响存在差异，为劳动力市场改革提供新见解。
Employment protection legislation (EPL) is an important labour market policy whose strictness differs greatly across OECD countries. The collection of articles in this Feature provides new theoretical and empirical results which highlight the impact of EPL on productivity, job and firm turnover, (un)employment and the incidence of temporary contracts. Importantly, the effect of EPL is shown to differ across types of workers and firms. This yields new insights on the incentives for labour market reform. Copyright 2007 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2007.