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Apps, Patricia - 2004

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Job creation and labor reform in Latin America

Kaplan, David S. - 2008

"This paper studies the effects of labor-regulation reform using data for 10,396 firms from 14 Latin American countries. Firms are asked both how many permanent workers they would have hired and how many they would have terminated if labor regulations were made more flexible. I find that making...

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Enforcement of labor regulation, informal labor, and firm performance

Almeida, Rita - 2005

"This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, the authors...

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International economic activities and the demand for skilled labor : evidence from Brazil and China

Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2004

"Increases in international economic integration can lead to greater specialization according to comparative advantage, but also to the diffusion of skill-biased technologies. In developing countries characterized by relative abundance of unskilled labor, these factors can have opposite effects...

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Firms, jobs, and employment in Moldova

Rutkowski, Jan - 2004

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Does strict employment protection discourage job creation : evidence from Croatia

Rutkowski, Jan - 2003

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Trade liberalization, firm performance, and labor market outcomes in the developing world : what can we learn from micro-level data?

Epifani, Paolo - 2003

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Unemployment and worker-firm matching : theory and evidence from East and West Europe

Münich, Daniel - 2009

inefficient matching. Hypothesis 2 (H2) is that unemployment is caused by low demand. Hypothesis 3 (H3) is that restructuring is … returns to scale in matching and unemployment appears to be driven by restructuring and low demand. The East German case is … complex because of its major active labor market policies and a negative trend in efficiency in matching. In some sense, East …

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Market power and the matching of trade credit terms

Fabbri, Daniele - 2008

to their customers, and to "match maturity" between the contract terms of payables and receivables. This matching …

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Population age structure and the budget deficit

Chen, Derek Hung Chiat - 2004

Cukierman and Meltzer (1989), the author argues that the commonly accepted notion that population aging tends to increase the … the economic and social effects of population aging"--World Bank web site …

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