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Employment Protection Legislation and the Size of Firms
Garibaldi, Pietro; Pacelli, Lia; Borgarello, Andrea - 2003
The existing literature ignores the fact that in most European countries the strictness of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) varies across the firm size distribution. In Italy firms are obliged to rehire an unfairly dismissed worker only if they employ more than 15 employees....
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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border
Gathmann, Christina - 2004
This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on...
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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Villagomez, Elizabeth - 2000
We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …
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Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur - 2001
We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …
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An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2003
this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA …
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Large employers are more cyclically sensitive
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2009
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...
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Is bigger still better? The decline of the wage premium at large firms
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2009
This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical evidence supports several explanations for the decline in the size premium. First, there has...
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Excess turnover and employment growth: firm and match heterogeneity
Centeno, Mário; Machado, Carla; Novo, Álvaro A. - 2009
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in a large heterogeneity of flows and excess turnover. Large and older firms have lower flows, but high excess turnover rates. In small firms, hires and separations move...
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Entrepreneurs out of necessity': A snapshot
Poschke, Markus - 2010
Entrepreneurs out of necessity identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms to grow less, but are likely to stay in the market. This evidence is a challenge for existing...
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The investment in job training: Why are SMEs lagging so much behind?
Almeida, Rita K.; Aterido, Reyes - 2010
This paper analyzes the link between firm size and the investment in job training by employers. Using a large firm level data set across 99 developing countries, we show that a strong and positive correlation in the investment in job training and firm size is a robust statistical finding both...
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