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seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding …, formal measures of severance-induced firing costs and hiring costs are derived. Firing costs are, it turns out …, systematically less than benefit generosity alone would imply. Moreover their interrelationship with hiring costs, often employed in …
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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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paper, we show that frictions in the labour market leading to monitoring costs tend to reduce the growth of the firm via two …
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contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and … costs and quality, for services without severe contracting problems. The picture is more mixed for services with tougher …
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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 …
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Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that predicted severance plan consequences depend critically on the precise structure of the plan. Whether governments mandate (i) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans...
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. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing … data setting implemented at a German university to measure the costs associated with spam and the costs savings of spam ….g., SAP) implemented in organizations. Our findings indicate that central IT costs are of little relevance since the majority …
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It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage-moderating (wage-increasing) effect so that...
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This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The … home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for …
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We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French …
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