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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity

Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization …

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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...

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Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment

Davis, Steven J. - 2008

Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent or less by the mid … parameter in search and matching models of unemployment. According to these models, a lower intensity of idiosyncratic shocks … produces less job destruction, fewer workers flowing through the unemployment pool and less frictional unemployment. To …

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