This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new … restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing … employment, slightly increase labor reallocation and reduce exit. The estimated elasticity of labor demand is about unity so that …

or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment … and hours worked by natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

largest was a shortfall of 3.5 percentage points in total factor productivity. The fourth was a shortfall of 2.4 percentage … in the labor market and pessimistic about reversing the declines in total factor productivity and the part of the …

discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages …

This paper studies quarterly employment flows of approximately 10,000 large U.S. manufacturing establishments during … 1972:1-1980:4.After estimating the extent of short run microeconomic substitution between employment and hours per worker … (hours-week), we construct measures of the path of the deviation between actual and desired employment based on the observed …

This paper is motivated by a set of cross-country observations on labor productivity growth among industrial countries … countries has decreased substantially while the negative effect of a country's own employment growth (or labor force growth) on … labor productivity has increased dramatically. The main contribution of the paper is to show how these observations are …

resources. Increasing productivity risk raises the value of an unexercised option to create an organized job. Losing this option …

relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This … exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment" growth and the probability of survival are both …