Showing 1 - 10 of 261
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719621
introduction of labor turnover costs (such as hiring and firing costs). Assuming that it is costly to hire and fire workers implies … and firing costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719627
amenities. The model assumes that the costs of relocating to a new city are zero. The results hold in the presence of moving … costs for the marginal migrant. This paper extends the Roback model to allow for moving costs which vary among a city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646704
are more talented than European and American players, there is evidence that they face lower training costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646733
We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are … zero and the optimal volatility of inflation is an increasing function of firing costs. The optimal rule should react to … employment alongside inflation. -- Optimal monetary policy ; hiring and firing costs ; labor market frictions ; policy trade-off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879356
places substantial firing costs on firms and has a major impact on the decisions of firms to hire disabled workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003476495
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931950
We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)’s sense. A practical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932408
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968599
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958746