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 …

paper, we show that frictions in the labour market leading to monitoring costs tend to reduce the growth of the firm via two …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French …