Labor Market Externalities of Pre-Retirement Employment Protection
CESifo, Munich, 2024
CESifo Working Paper No. 11078
Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or women approaching eligibility. Considering separately incumbent workers and non-employees we find small positive and small negative employment effects for the former and the latter groups, respectively.
Social Protection
Labour Markets