The Labor Protection Laws and Fixed-term Employment

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780175
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Public finance/Public economy
• Research Institution: Kumamoto Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: Koba Takeshi 熊本学園大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (00346280)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 雇用保護規制 / 有期雇用 / 無期雇用

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research discussed an observed “asymmetric substitution effect” which means that the fixed-term employment ratio is affected by employment protection regulations on regular workers while it is not affected by the regulations on fixed-term workers. This research successfully constructed the theoretical model which yields the observed asymmetric substitution effect by an introducing the third factor on a CES production process. This research also found some empirical evidences about a substitution mechanism among the production factors using my own constructed micro data set.

Free Research Field

労働経済学