FBK-IRVAPP Seminar: Caterina Pavese (ifo Institute)

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Rebalancing power asymmetries within firms: Evidence from illegal resignations

Title: Rebalancing power asymmetries within firms: Evidence from illegal resignationsAbstract: In this paper, we document the extent of employer abuse of power and characterize the employers most likely to engage in abusive relationships with their employees. We leverage an Italian reform that changed the submission process for voluntary resignations from a paper-based to an online system. This reform aimed to curb the illegal practice of requiring workers to sign undated resignation letters, which employers could use at their discretion to avoid the costs associated with dismissals - a clear manifestation of power abuse. Using difference-in-difference estimation to identify causal effects, we document that resignations declined more in firms with higher proportions of vulnerable workers, operating in weaker local labor markets, and with lower productivity. We also show that the reform effectively increased workers’ safety by reducing injuries, thereby successfully rebalancing power within firms.Speaker: Caterina Pavese is an Assistant Professor at the ifo Institut, Munich. She is a member of the Junior Faculty at LMU Munich and the CESifo network. She obtained her PhD from Ca' Foscari University of Venice in 2020. In 2019, she was a Visiting Scholar at UCL, London. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of the Economics of Education, Migration, and Labour Economics.Venue: The seminar will be held on the Google Meet web conferencing platform. For this seminar, 10 seats in person have been allocated (subject to availability). Please register for the event via Eventbrite, indicating whether you will be attending online or in person. For those who have registered to attend in person, please arrive in Vicolo dalla Piccola, 12 - 38122 Trento TN - Italy, 5-10 minutes before the start of the event.**********************************************************************************************Privacy NoticePursuant to the EU Regulation No. 2016/679 – General Data Protection Regulation and to the <a href="https://www.fbk.eu/en/privacy-policy-events/" title="https://www.fbk.eu/en/privacy-policy-events/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Privacy Policy for FBK event’s participants</a>, we inform you that the event won't be recorded.Please remember that it is expressly prohibited to save, record, copy, publish, disseminate, distribute in any way or form and by any means, including digital means (e.g. via email or through social networks), any content, fully or partially, of the recordings, without the consent of the speaker and the FBK authorization.

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