On the welfare implications of firing costs

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 759-775

  Booth, Alison L ^a,b   Zoega, Gylfi ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Employment; Human capital; Quitting externalities; Redundancy payments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142119256     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0176-2680(03)00034-X     Document Type: Article

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