The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as …. Salient results include the positive role played by firm size, industry size and industry growth on survival and yet the …

at the 8-digit product level from 1995 to 2005. I find that survival probabilities are affected by exporter …

chance of survival than those in second and third class. British passengers were more likely to perish than members of other …

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more … descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising …

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

provisions combined with collective financing via taxes. However, a high employment rate is needed to ensure financial viability … employment ratio, namely, demographic changes, a growth dilemma and globalization. This paper discusses how these challenges …

. A worker's bargaining position reflects their own productivity, and also the employment status and conditions of their …