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Do Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Stabilize Employment? Theoretical Considerations and Evidence from Germany
Fendel, Ralf; Frenkel, Michael - EconWPA - 1996
The hypothesis that the behavior of firms in adjusting the number of their employees along a business cycle depends on the size of the firms has often been mentioned in the literature. Several authors argue that small and medium sized enterprises are more hesitant in hiring additional employees...
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Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004
South Africans unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications …. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to … unemployment and the duration of unemployment are examined. A probit model of the determinants of unemployment is estimated: it …
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