team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters. We find that the number of functional managers closer to the … ; diversification …

; 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 …

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 …

investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … substantial role for aggregate labor market conditions in hiring costs, whereby the latter are lower in "good times." The fit of …

. -- severance pay ; firing costs ; hiring costs ; separation rate ; employment …

care costs of $1.5 to $2.7 billion for combat-induced PTSD. -- military service ; post-traumatic stress disorder …