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| Tekijä: | Ichino, A. Polo, M. Rettore, E. |
| Otsikko: | Are judges biased by labor market conditions? |
| Lehti: | European Economic Review
2003 : OCT, VOL. 47:5, p. 913-944 |
| Asiasana: | Labour markets Unemployment Dismissal Costs Industrial relations Macroeconomics |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | When a firing litigation is taken to court, only the characteristics of the employee's misconduct should be relevant for the judge's decision. Using detailed data from an Italian bank and aggregate macro data, this paper shows that, instead, local labour market conditions influence the court's decision: The same misconduct episode may be considered sufficient for firing in a tight labor market but insufficient otherwise. This conclusion is reached after taking carefully into consideration the non-random selection of firing litigations for trial. Although these results refer to the specific situation considered, they raise more general issues. |
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