economics ; incomplete contracts ; construction ; agency theory ; industry studies ; outsourcing ; procurement …

are more talented than European and American players, there is evidence that they face lower training costs …

; firing costs …

increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal … likely to be kidnapped, smuggled, or raped when crossing illegally. If migration costs are not the same for all migrants …, higher migrating costs may result in a change in the number and in the composition of immigrants to the United States. In the …

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 …

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical … business start-up costs. We use three highly comparable micro datasets (SHARE, ELSA and HRS) providing harmonized data on …