The effects of employment protection legislation and financial market imperfections on investment: evidence from a firm-level panel of EU countries
利用欧洲企业面板数据，研究发现就业保护立法会降低高重组行业的人均投资和生产率，而金融健康的企业受影响较小，信贷约束会加剧这种负面效应。
Exploiting information from a panel of European firms we study the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation. We find that EPL reduces investment per worker, capital per worker and value added per worker in high reallocation sectors relative to low reallocation sectors, while increasing the average frequency at which firms adjust their capital stock. The reduction in capital per worker and value added per worker is less pronounced in financially sound firms. Also, the propensity to invest appears to increase only in firms that are likely to be financially unconstrained. Overall, poor access to credit markets seems to exacerbate the negative effects of EPL on capital deepening and productivity.—Federico Cingano, Marco Leonardi, Julián Messina and Giovanni Pica