The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws

Autores: David H. Autor, John J., III Donohue, Stewart Schwab
Localización: The Review of economics and statistics, ISSN 0034-6535, Vol. 88, Nº 2, 2006, págs. 211-231
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.1162/rest.88.2.211
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Resumen
- 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 recognized wrongful-discharge laws: the public-policy and goodfaith exceptions.