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Authordc.contributor.authorPagés, Carmen 
Authordc.contributor.authorMontenegro, Claudio E. es_CL
Admission datedc.date.accessioned2010-09-15T14:25:34Z
Available datedc.date.available2010-09-15T14:25:34Z
Publication datedc.date.issued2007-12
Cita de ítemdc.identifier.citationEstudios de Economía, Vol. 34, No.2, Diciembre 2007, pp. 109-139en_US
Identifierdc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/127739
General notedc.descriptionArtículo de publicación ISI
Abstractdc.description.abstractThis paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This mechanism is based on the relative costs of dismissing young versus older workers resulting from job security provisions that are related to tenure. Using 39 consecutive annual household-surveys from Chile, we find that job security is associated with a substantial decline in the wage employment-to-population rate of young workers. In contrast, we do not find such a decline in young self-employment rates or in the wage employment rates of older workers. Comparing results for men and women and using measures of relative dismissal costs, we find that the adverse effect of job security on youth employment is driven by the link between severance payments and tenure. We also find that job security does not have a significant impact on overall aggregate employment, participation or unemployment rates.en_US
Lenguagedc.language.isoenen_US
Publisherdc.publisherUniversidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negociosen_US
Keywordsdc.subjectJob securityen_US
Títulodc.titleJob Security and the Age-Composition of Employment: Evidence from Chileen_US
Title in another languagedc.title.alternativeCostos de despido y la composición etaria del empleo: evidencia para Chileen_US
Document typedc.typeArtículo de revista


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