We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...

This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representative developing country with a large unregulated of "informal" sector. It confirms the relevance of the recent mainstream models and debates surrounding gross worker flows to the developing country context,...