@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8702, author={Centeno, Mario and Novo, Alvaro A.}, title={Paying for Others' Protection: Causal Evidence on Wages in a Two-Tier System}, year={2014}, month={Dec}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={8702}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8702}, abstract={In a segmented labor market, theory predicts that employment protection has an asymmetric impact on entry and incumbent wages. We explore a reform that increased the protection of open-ended contracts for a well-defined subset of firms, while leaving it unchanged for other firms. The causal evidence points to a reduction in wages for new open-ended and fixed-term contracts and no impact for more tenured workers. The reductions estimated for entrants oscillate between -0.9 and -0.5 p.p., covering a significant part of the expected increase in firing costs. Firms with larger shares of fixed-term contracts shifted the burden to these workers.}, keywords={wages;two-tier systems;quasi-experiment;employment protection}, }