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Dynamics of Labor Demand : Evidence from Plant-level Observations and Aggregate Implications

Cooper, Russel W. - 2004

This paper studies the dynamics of labor demand at the plant and aggregate levels. The correlation of hours and employment growth is negative at the plant level and positive in aggregate time series. Further, hours and employment growth are about equally volatile at the plant level while hours...

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Partial Adjustment without Apology

King, Robert G. - 2003

Many kinds of economic behavior appear to be governed by discrete and occasional individual choices. Despite this, econometric partial adjustment models perform relatively well at the aggregate level. Analyzing the classic employment adjustment problem, we show how discrete and occasional...

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Labor Demand and the Source of Adjustment Costs

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1993

Most models of dynamic labor demand are written in terms of costs of adjusting employment (net adjustment costs). A few are based on the costs of hiring and firing (gross adjustment costs). This study derives several models containing both types of adjustment costs. A dynamic-programming model...

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Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1988

This study examines the nature of the costs that firms face in adjusting labor demand in response to shocks induced by changes in output demand and prices. Empirical work on monthly plant-level time-series data shows that adjustment proceeds in jumps. Employment is unchanged in response to small...

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The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping : Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Borjas, George J. - 2003

Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …

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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2014

to date in understanding the impact of high skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that … call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms …

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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration

Borjas, George J. - 2009

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …

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Asymmetric Cycles

Jovanovic, Boyan - 2004

I estimate a model in which new technology entails random adjustment costs. Rapid adjustments may cause productivity slowdowns. These slowdowns last longer when retooling is costly. The model explains why growth-rate disasters are more likely than miracles, and why volatility of growth relates...

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A Model of Housing in the Presence of Adjustment Costs : A Structural Interpretation of Habit Persistence

Flavin, Marjorie - 2004

The paper generalizes the Grossman and Laroque (1990) model of optimal consumption and portfolio allocation in the context in which a durable good (or house) subject to adjustment costs is both an argument of the utility function and a component of wealth. Because the Grossman and Laroque model...

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The Cost of Labor Adjustment : Inferences from the Gap

Cooper, Russell W. - 2003

We study labor adjustment costs. We specify a dynamic optimization problem at the plant-level, allowing for both convex and non-convex adjustment costs. We estimate the parameters of the adjustment process using an indirect inference procedure in which simulated moments are matched with data...

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