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EPL index for regular contracts and for temporary contracts: (source: OECD).
Many policy experts have recommended deregulating EPL for regular contracts, although this has proven difficult for political reasons.
Figure 8 Relationship between employment protection legislation for regular contracts and shift in Okun's coefficient during the global financial crisis, 2007-2010.
Training and temporary employment are used to circumvent the costs associated with strict employment regulations for regular contracts, although not all firms use these strategies.
The simple correlations reveal that there is indeed a negative relationship between the strictness of employment protection and the shift, particularly for regular contracts.
When we use de jure regulations instead of the perception of regulations (Table 2), we find that EPL for regular contracts has a strong effect on firms' decision to provide training and make greater use of temporary employment.
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We focus on the following variables to characterize individual protection against dismissal for workers with regular contracts: Procedural requirements.
As mentioned above, by using this index, we can disentangle the impact of regulations for temporary and regular contracts.
The same relationship is more robust and the coefficient higher when the index for EPL governing regular contracts only is used, as shown in Figure 8 (the relationship explains 28percentnt of the variation – 36percentnt if Estonia is excluded).
The indicators are compiled from several items covering three different aspects of employment protection: individual dismissal of workers with regular contracts, additional costs for collective dismissals, and regulation of temporary contracts.
Raters were released from work for the interview day within the scope of their regular contracts to be involved in the process.
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