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Labour market counter-reforms in OECD countries : conditional impact on output and employment growth
Wiese, Rasmus; Jalles, João Tovar; Haan, Jakob de - 2024
This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578524
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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates
Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361496
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Wage and employment cyclicalities at the establishment level
Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko - 2021
wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619265
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Slow to hire, quick to fire : employment dynamics with asymmetric responses to news
Ilut, Cosmin; Kehrig, Matthias; Schneider, Martin - 2017
explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637667
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Do undergraduate majors or Ph.D. students affect faculty size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2010
Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970322
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Democratization and the size of government : evidence from the long 19th century
Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter Sandholt - 2013
We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between 1820 and 1913. We find that franchise extension exhibits a U-shaped association with revenue per capita and a positive association with spending per capita. Instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709428
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Why are small firms different? : managers views
Agell, Jonas - 2003
Do incentives in small organizations differ from those in large ones? This paper uses a representative survey of compensation managers to shed light on the issues. I find that (i) small establishments rely less on pecuniary incentives, and have a significantly more hostile attitude towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511082
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624
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Real wages and business cycle asymmetries : presented at CESifo conference "Academic Use of ifo Survey Data", December 2003
Woitek, Ulrich - 2004
The cyclicality of real wages has important implications for the validity of competing business cycle theories. However, the empirical evidence on the aggregate level is inconclusive. Using a threshold vector autoregressive model for the US and Germany to condition the relationship between real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449261
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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528328