Labor Market Consequences of Temporary and Permanent Employment Protection Legislation

First and foremost I want to thank my thesis advisors – Professors Sami Alpanda and John Gordanier – for their help and guidance during all stages of my thesis work. Their advice and numerous suggestions turned my initial, scattered ideas into this thesis. It was very rewarding, both intellectually and personally, to work with them for the past six months, and I truly learned a great deal about academic research from them. I am also indebted to Professor Adam Honig for providing me with an important data set that I used in my thesis. I would like to thank my readers- Professors Chris Kingston and Geoffrey Woglom- for their comments and suggestions. I also want to thank Professor Kingston for a series of conversations which gave the general direction of my thesis research. Professor Woglom was my economics advisor during my time at Amherst and I want to thank him for all the important conversations that we had. Special thanks to Emil Temnyalov and Carl Jack Liebersohn for reading earlier versions of my thesis and giving me important suggestions. I thank my parents, family, and friends for their unending support, love and care. Lastly, I thank Anna Mari for all her patience and love