West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of … reduction in 'firing costs' on movements in employment is assessed using manufacturing data by detailed industry for the period … industries with high and low sales variability, suggest they are not the result of the Employment Promotion Act …

, we exploit the recently developed Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), which contains annual observations on employment …, the employment-weighted mean volatility of firm growth rates has declined by more than 40% since 1982. This result stands … volatility among privately held firms. This pattern holds in every major industry group. Employment shifts toward older …

spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs … sharing a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant industry. Using …

Census of Employment and Wages data, did not detect negative minimum wage effects on restaurant employment. Jha, Neumark and … detect negative employment effects. This result holds whether we compare across all states, look within commuting zones or …

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment … insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor …

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy. Both the size of public employment and the level of … is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of …

credit, and reduce their employment and capital. However, when policy rates are constrained by the effective lower bound …, demand effects are stronger, leading firms to raise their prices more and no longer reduce their employment …

employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …