TY - GEN AU - Pagés, Carmen AU - Montenegro, Claudio E. TI - Job Security and the Age-Composition of Employment: Evidence from Chile PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/10/28 DO - 10.18235/0010721 AB - This paper develops a simple model to analyze the impact of tenure-based severance payments on firms' hiring and firing decisions. The findings are that under certain conditions, this feature leads to a Last-in First-out firing policy. Also, reforms that increase the slope of the severance-tenure profile tend to increase the probabilities of dismissal of low tenure workers. UR - https://doi.org/10.18235/0010721 ER -