dismissal costs. We exploit the fact that costs for unjust dismissals in Italy increased for firms below 15 employees relative … to bigger firms after 1990. We find that the increase in dismissal costs after 1990 decreased accessions and separations … increase in dismissal costs had smaller effects on turnover for women in sectors faced with strict product market regulations. …

We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In …

In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a … representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of … of hiring into fixed-term contracts. But these costs are small in comparison to the costs of retiring or terminating …

Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of … household members consume market goods with given household income. The ?costs of children? are perceived essentially as market … consumption costs. This ignores the fact that an important, possibly preponderant element of child costs takes the form of …

dependence and placing the emphasis on their joint, forward-looking behavior. Using estimation of aggregate, private sector U … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … substantial role for aggregate labor market conditions in hiring costs, whereby the latter are lower in good times. The fit of the …

investment and physical capital. We find that a conventional specification – quadratic adjustment costs for capital and no hiring … costs – performs poorly. Rather hiring and investment flows, unlike employment and capital stocks, are volatile and both are …

When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased productivity, output per worker … increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increase only gradually if the costs continue to fall. As a result …