heterogeneous firing costs. The theoretical model predicts that the firm displaces workers with low firing costs, low expected …

Job-to-job turnover provides a way for employers to escape statutory firing costs, as unprofitable workers may … willfully quit their job on receiving an outside offer, thus sparing their incumbent employer the firing costs. Furthermore … employed job search, our model explains why higher firing costs intensify job-to-job turnover at the expense of transitions out …

likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between the costs for employers of hiring a native relative to hiring an …

In this paper we conduct an analysis of the effects of firing costs in models that consider simultaneously worker … parametrically. There is imperfect information about worker productivity. We find that at given wages firing costs increase youth … unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs …

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of … firms, and is sustained as entrants imitate the best incumbents. In this framework, firing costs not only induce … misallocation of labor, but also affect growth by affecting firms' exit decisions. Importantly, charging firing costs only to …