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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751889
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Dismissal Laws in Australia : Reforms and Enforcement by Labour Courts
Freyens, Benoit - 2015
The paper analyses the arbitration of dismissal disputes by Australian labour courts over a 15 years' time span … characterized by two major legal reforms to unfair dismissal statutes. We isolate two channels by which we think the social values … dismissal cases. We also test for and address the Priest-Klein selection effect, which is known to potentially invalidate …
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The Costs of Job Loss in Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2011
This paper is the first to analyze the costs of job loss in Russia, using unique new data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey over the years 2003-2008, including a special supplement on displacement that was initiated by us. We employ fixed effects regression models and propensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131427
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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?
Merkl, Christian - 2010
This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139060
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Severance Pay Mandates : Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding scheme would do – but that empirically the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121754
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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health : Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China
Liu, Hong - 2011
Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which resulted in massive layoff of the SOEs' workers and a high unemployment rate. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122166
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123590
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Job Loss in the Great Recession : Historical Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010
Farber, Henry S. - 2011
The Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009 is associated with a dramatic weakening of the labor market from which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125078
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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data
Geishecker, Ingo - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097869