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| DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grj023 |
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| Oxford Review of Economic Policy 22, 2 (2006) 290-410 |
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| Job protection: the Macho Hypothesis |
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| Yann Algan 1Pierre Cahuc 2, 3 |
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| This paper shows that the stringency of employment protection in Mediterranean countries can be partly explained by cultural values embedded in religion. Both the security provided by this legislation and its redistributive effects in favour of the male breadwinner insiders fit into the framework of Mediterranean religions. First, international individual surveys allow us to document that Catholics and Muslims are more likely to agree with traditional gender division of work than Protestants and the non-religious. Second, we develop a political economy model predicting that employment protection should be more stringent in countries where there is a larger share of insiders supportive of traditional family values. We then show that this prediction is supported by empirical evidence on OECD countries over the period 1970–99. |
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| 1: | Université Marne La Vallée, IZA, PSE |
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| 2: | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST) |
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INSEE – École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique |
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| 3: | Department of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique |
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CNRS : UMR7176 – Polytechnique - X |
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| Subject | : | Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and finances |
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| From: Department Of Economics | |
| Submitted on: Monday, 15 June 2009 15:19:34 | |
| Updated on: Monday, 15 June 2009 15:19:34 | |
