Balancing Regulations to Promote Jobs : From Employment Contracts to Unemployment Benefits
This report reviews international experiences and presents options for the design of four types of labor regulations: employment contracts, minimum wages, dismissal procedures, as well as severance pay and unemployment benefits. In each case, it discusses the market failures that these regulation...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/12/25518330/balancing-regulations-promote-jobs-employment-contracts-unemployment-benefits http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23324 |
| Summary: | This report reviews international experiences and presents options for the design
of four types of labor regulations: employment contracts, minimum wages,
dismissal procedures, as well as severance pay and unemployment benefits. In
each case, it discusses the market failures that these regulations aim to address
and suggests options to better protect workers while preserving incentives to
create good jobs. |
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