1. Reforming Severance Pay: Toward an Understanding of Program Rationale, Economic Impact and Reform Options

   • Robert Holzmann

   Editorial Pages: 251 - 253

2. The Austrian Severance Pay Reform: Toward a Funded Pension Pillar

   • Reinhard Koman
   • Ulrich Schuh
   • Andrea Weber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 274

3. Severance Payment Programs in Latin America

   • Miguel Jaramillo
   • Jaime Saavedra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 307

4. Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms

   • Mirko Cardinale
   • Mike Orszag

   OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 343

5. What Have We Learned about the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear Et al.

   • John T. Addison
   • Paulino Teixeira

   OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 368