Employment protection legislation and catching-up

After World War II (WW II), productivity growth in Europe and Japan was driven by catching up with the US. Institutions in Europe were different too and well suited for economic growth through imitation and adaptation of the technology to local circumstances. Catching up is, however, a self defeatin...

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Published in:Applied economics 2013-03, Vol.45 (8), p.973-981
Main Authors: van Schaik, Ton, van de Klundert, Theo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
catching-up
Economic cooperation
employment protection
extensive growth
Industrialized nations
intensive growth
Japan
Labor economics
Labor law
labour force participation
Labour market participation
Legislation
Productivity
Productivity growth
Quantitative Finance
Regression analysis
Studies
U.S.A
World War Two
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Summary:After World War II (WW II), productivity growth in Europe and Japan was driven by catching up with the US. Institutions in Europe were different too and well suited for economic growth through imitation and adaptation of the technology to local circumstances. Catching up is, however, a self defeating process. It ends when the technology frontier is attained or when in case of conditional convergence institutions set a limit to the process of catching up. Once this situation is reached, the existing institutions may no longer be appropriate. Regression analysis on a panel of 21 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries reveals that Employment Protection Legislations (EPL) had a positive impact on productivity growth in the period of rapid convergence in the sixties and seventies. However, from the eighties onwards, the total effect of EPL on labour productivity growth was negative.
ISSN:0003-6846
1466-4283
DOI:10.1080/00036846.2011.613784