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Public employment and political pressure : the case of French hospitals

Clark, Andrew E.; Milcent, Carine - 2010

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP...

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Labor adjustment costs in a panel of establishments : a structural approach

Ejarque, João (contributor); Portugal, Pedro (contributor) - 2007

This paper estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Our establishment level data displays an extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels are largely constant throughout our sample. This can be due to the fact that establishments face large shocks but also...

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Human capital spill-overs within the workplace

Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001

An individual's human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched worker-workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...

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Job flow dynamics and firing restrictions : evidence from Europe

Messina, Julián (contributor); … - 2006

We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...

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The shape of hiring and separation costs

Kramarz, Francis (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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When and how to create a job : the survival of new jobs in Austrian firms

Böheim, René (contributor); Stiglbauer, Alfred (contributor) - 2005

While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firms and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values of...

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The flow approach to labor markets : new data sources, micro-macro links and the recent downturn

Davis, Steven J. (contributor); … - 2005

New data sources and products developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census highlight the dynamic character of U.S. labor markets. Private-sector job creation and destruction rates average nearly 8% of employment per quarter. Worker flows in the form of hires and...

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Determinants and policy simulation of firms cooperation in innovation

Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - 2013

This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the … manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 …' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities. These determinants are …

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The finite sample performance of semi- and nonparametric estimators for treatment effects and policy evaluation

Frölich, Markus; Huber, Martin; Wiesenfarth, Manuel - 2015

treatment and policy evaluation. In contrast to previous simulation studies which mostly considered semiparametric approaches …

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Distributional effects of competition: a simulation approach

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the …

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