This paper investigates how enforcement of labour regulation affects the firm's use of informal labour, firm size and … firm performance. Using firm level data on employment, capita, and output, census data on informal employment at the city … level, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in areas where law enforcement …

market outcomes for apprentices in Germany and high school graduates in the United States. Apprentices in Germany occupy a … provide evidence that the problem of forming labour market bonds is particularly acute for minority groups – in Germany as …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

productivity and restructuring. Unlike previous studies we are able to account for the heterogeneity across firms in their exposure … by increasing productivity. The RER shock was associated with substantial within-firm productivity gains for net … exporters; gains that seem to have come about partly through technological improvements. The productivity gains also appear to …

unemployment this made sense. A bargaining model approach suggests, however, that this had a harmful impact on productivity growth …

5% of productivity growth. There is a small negative effect of less than half a percent on employment when industries … paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11% of productivity growth during this period …

focus on the control of the voting of agricultural workers by landlords and show that if the employment relationship is …