Employment protection is the result of labor laws as well as of institutional factors not encompassed in official legislation. Courts' delays in settling labor disputes are among those factors. Using individual data from the Italian Labour Force Survey (2008–2010) and exploiting the territorial heterogeneity in the duration of labor trials across Italian regions we investigate the effect of courts’ delays on the composition of employment. We find that labor courts' delays reduce the employment rate and increase inactivity of specific categories of workers, i.e., women, young, and low‐skilled individuals; they also reduce the likelihood of accessing a permanent occupation and increase the incidence of long‐term unemployment for the same groups of workers.

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劳动法院和解雇费用：审判延误对劳动力市场的影响

就业保护是劳动法以及官方立法未涵盖的制度因素的结果。法院拖延解决劳资纠纷的原因之一。利用意大利劳动力调查（2008-2010）的个人数据，并利用意大利各地区劳动试验期间的地域异质性，我们研究了法院延误对就业构成的影响。我们发现，劳动法院的延误降低了就业率，并增加了特定类别的工人（即妇女，年轻和低技能人士）的不活跃程度；它们还减少了同一职业工人获得永久职业的可能性，并增加了长期失业的发生率。