Reforming severance pay an international perspective /
"Severance pay, a program that provides compensation to workers on termination of employment, is the most widely used income protection program for the unemployed--yet it is often blamed for creating economic inefficiencies such as reducing employment and limiting access to jobs for disadvantag...
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Table of Contents:
- Severance pay under review : key issues, policy conclusions, and research agenda / Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec
- Severance pay programs around the world : history, rationale, status, and reforms / Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec, and Michael Weber
- Mandated severance pay and firing cost distortions : a critical review of the evidence / Donald O. Parsons
- The firing cost implications of alternative severance pay designs / Donald O. Parsons
- Effects of the Austrian severance pay reform / Helmut Hofer, Ulrich Schuh, and Dominik Walch
- Severance pay reform in the Republic of Korea / Jungyoll Yun and Jai-Joon Hur
- Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America : overview and assessment / Ana M. Ferrer and W. Craig Riddell
- The welfare consequences of alternative designs of unemployment insurance savings accounts / Hugo Hopenhayn and Juan Carlos Hatchondo
- The new Chilean unemployment insurance system : combining individual accounts and redistribution in an emerging economy / Solange Berstein, Eduardo Fajnzylber, and Pamela Gana
- Reemployment incentives under the Chilean hybrid unemployment benefit program / Gonzalo Reyes, Jan C. van Ours, and Milan Vodopivec.