in U.S. refugee admissions starting in 2017 costs the overall U.S. economy today over $9.1 billion per year ($30,962 per … missing refugee per year, on average) and costs public coffers at all levels of government over $2.0 billion per year ($6 … during the same period likewise carry ongoing costs in the billions of dollars per year. These estimates imply that barriers …

How have changes in the costs of enrolling full-time at public two- and four-year colleges affected student decisions … public four-year colleges we study the impact of public higher education costs on the post-secondary enrollment decisions of … college, a public four-year university in their state of residence, other colleges, or no college at all, as relative costs …

tradeoff between the costs of turnover and two other costs, higher pay to offset bad working conditions (compensating …

Collective dismissal costs are an important part of employment protection legislation (EPL) and make firms' exit more … costly. We show in a model with step-by-step innovations that dismissal costs spur innovation if product markets are not too … to innovate. But dismissal costs decrease the absolute value of firms and induce exit. These opposite effects and their …

Firing frictions and renegotiation costs affect worker and firm preferences for rigid wages versus individualized Nash … on renegotiation costs and prevent workers from exploiting the firing friction. For standard calibrations, the model can …

In this paper we conduct an analysis of the effects of firing costs in models that consider simultaneously worker … parametrically. There is imperfect information about worker productivity. We find that at given wages firing costs increase youth … unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs …