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Severance Pay Mandates : Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
apparent paradox – firing cost effects are modest even without firm avoidance activities. To explore why that should be so … and the economic environment. Although the analysis assumes a fixed benefit mandate, the cost measures are easily extended …
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Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions : A Critical Review of the Evidence
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
Severance pay mandates are an appealing job displacement insurance strategy in developing countries, which have only modest government administrative capacities, but they carry the threat of adverse indirect effects. A critical review of the empirical literature reveals that severance benefit...
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The Costs of Agglomeration : Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
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The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs
Parsons, Donald O. - 2010
Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that …) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no "firing cost" effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …
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