New data sources and products developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census highlight the fluid character of U.S. labor markets. Private-sector job creation and destruction rates average nearly 8% of employment per quarter. Worker flows in the form of hires and...

Small firms often do not change their number of employees from year to year. This paper investigates the role of adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at...

We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...

New data sources and products developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census highlight the dynamic character of U.S. labor markets. Private-sector job creation and destruction rates average nearly 8% of employment per quarter. Worker flows in the form of hires and...

In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....

This paper examines the implications of regulatory change for the input mix and technology choices of regulated industries. We present a simple neoclassical framework that emphasizes the change in relative factor prices associated with the regulatory change from full cost to partial cost...

Employee Experience bzw. EX-Design wird zu einem immer wichtigeren Hebel für die Zufriedenheit und Motivation von Mitarbeitenden. Die Personalfunktion nimmt dabei eine wichtige Schnittstelle ein. Volker Nürnberg beschreibt die Grundlagen und Methoden von EX-Design und zeigt anhand...

"In der Wissensgesellschaft sind Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter die wichtigste Ressource. Ziel der strategischen Personalarbeit ist es, mit dieser planerisch effizient umzugehen. Ein effektives HR-Risikomanagement ist dabei ein wesentlicher Baustein und bedeutender Wettbewerbsfaktor. Wie Sie...