Estonian manufacturing enterprises. A dynamic model is employed where both the long run optimal level of employment and the … speed at which actual employment is adjusted to the optimal are modelled as functions of several variables. Firm level panel … data from 1995 to 1999 were used. The results showed that in the long run employment responds greatest to wages, followed …

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant … sectors. We find the differences in the short and long-run wage and employment responses to changes in export to be explained …

the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and employment. The focus is on analyzing the effects … wages and capital stock, conditional on which the firm decides on production factors of employment, working hours and …

This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian …, output, quasi-fixed capital stock and technology. The empirical results show that in the long run, employment demand responds … greatest to value-added, followed by capital stock changes, and least by wages. The speed of adjustment in employment and the …

assume that as competition increases industries adjust their employment to a desired level which is both industry and time … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …

providing knowledge about the nature of (un)employment and current policy measures, a number policy measures are proposed to …