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The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico

Davis, Steven; Rivera-Batiz, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college degree. The shortfall is concentrated in the private...

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Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden

Davis, Steven; Henrekson, Magnus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

neutral set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution is sharply tilted away from lower wage industries …

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Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment

Davis, Steven; Henrekson, Magnus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

national pension system, wage-setting institutions and the size of the public sector. We characterize these aspects of the … set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution in the mid-1980s is sharply tilted away from low …

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Small Business and Job Creation: Dissecting the Myth and Reassessing theFacts

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Schuh, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

This paper investigates how job creation and destruction behavior varies by employer size in the U.S. manufacturing sector during the period 1972 to 1988. The paper also evaluates the empirical basis for conventional claims about the job-creating prowess of small businesses. The chief findings...

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Contract-Theoretic Approaches to Wages and Displacement

Denhaan, Wouter; Ramey, Garey; Watson, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

This paper develops a theoretical framework for analyzing contracting imperfections in long-term employment relationships. We focus chiefly on limited enforceability and limited worker liquidity. Inefficient severance of employment relationships, payment of efficiency wages, the relative...

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Job Destruction and Propagation of Shocks

Denhaan, Wouter; Ramey, Garey; Watson, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

We develop and quantitatively implement a dynamic general equilibrium model with labor" market matching and endogenous job destruction. The model produces a close match with data on" job creation and destruction. Cyclical fluctuations in the job destruction rate serve to magnify the" effects of...

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Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Faberman, R. Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We measure job-filling rates and recruiting intensity per vacancy at the national and industry levels from January 2001 to September 2011 using data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Construction makes up less than 5 percent of employment but accounts for more than 40 percent of...

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Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time

Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Faberman, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Many theoretical models of labor market search imply a tight link between worker flows (hires and separations) and job gains and losses at the employer level. Partly motivated by these theories, we exploit establishment-level data from U.S. sources to study the relationship between worker flows...

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Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss

Davis, Steven; von Wachter, Till Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

-displacement earnings if displaced in mass-layoff events that occur when the national unemployment rate is below 6 percent. They lose a … staggering 2.8 years of pre-displacement earnings if displaced when the unemployment rate exceeds 8 percent. These results … opportunities respond to contemporaneous economic conditions. Finally, we confront leading models of unemployment fluctuations with …

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Shocks and Institutions in a Job Matching Model

Denhaan, Wouter; Haefke, Christian; Ramey, Garey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

replacement rates or initial tax rates are high, while no increase in unemployment occurs when institutions are 'employment …This paper explains the divergent behavior of European and US unemployment rates using a job market matching model of … the labor market with an interaction between shocks and institutions. It shows that a reduction in TFP growth rates, an …

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