The costs of wrongful-discharge laws

被引：202

作者：

Autor, David H. ^{[1
]}

Donohue, John J., III

Schwab, Stewart J.

机构：

[1] MIT, Dept Econ, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[3] Yale Univ, Sch Law, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[4] Cornell Univ, Sch Law, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

来源：

REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS | 2006年 / 88卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1162/rest.88.2.211

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful-discharge protections adopted by U.S. state courts during the last three decades. we find robust evidence that one wrongful-discharge doctrine, the implied-contract exception, reduced state employment rates by 0.8% to 1.7%. The initial impact is largest for female and less-educated workers (those who change jobs frequently), while the longer-term effect is greater for older and more-educated workers (those most likely to litigate). By contrast. we find no robust employment or wage effects of two other widely recoenized wrongful-discharge laws: the public-policy and good-faith exceptions.

引用

页码：211 / 231

页数：21

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