places substantial firing costs on firms and has a major impact on the decisions of firms to hire disabled workers …

; firing costs …

We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll …, which predicts an ambiguous effect on wages: firing costs are expected to increase wages, because they increase the … for the endogeneity of the treatment status, suggest that decreased firing costs and payroll taxes have a positive overall …

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 …

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 …

We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to … and commuting costs because firms need to compensate the transportation cost difference between the employed and …