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Labor Demand During the Crisis : What Happened in Germany?
Bohachova, Olga - 2011
In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms' labor demand during the crisis using a firm-level...
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Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies : Is There a Threshold Effect?
Coricelli, Fabrizio - 2010
The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European … moderate leverage could boost growth while very high leverage could lower it by increasing the likelihood of financial distress … beyond which further increases in leverage could lower TFP growth …
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading : The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...
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Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models
Peichl, Andreas - 2010
When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135390
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn : A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137252
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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Godart, Olivier - 2012
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Dräger, Vanessa - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
of hiring would decrease with a growth in available labor for two reasons: (1) individuals seeking employment would be …
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Frictions and the Joint Behavior of Hiring and Investment
Yashiv, Eran - 2012
The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores their dynamic behavior in the presence of frictions. It does so within a unified framework, stressing their mutual dependence and placing the emphasis on their joint,...
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David J. - 2012
We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to GDP shocks at destination, but no significant wage...
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