heterogeneity plays no qualitative role for the effects of debt on wealth and factor employment. …

employment at will. In such a case, large enough severance payments reduce job destruction, and increase job creation and social …

's type. We find that the form of the optimal contract depends on the job characteristics as well as the distribution of … contracts may be adopted by ex ante identical firms. Hence, we offer an explanation for the co-existence of different employment …

The present study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm's decision to hire contract workers. We use … using a logit model, where the firm's decision, whether or not to hire a contract worker is assumed to be a binary dependent … variable. Our findings suggest that the firms producing for the export market are more likely to engage contract workers than …

has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to India's rigid employment protection legislation. Using plant level …The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last … decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature …

-term employment stability among those who lost their jobs early in the pandemic in contrast to the group of the longer-term unemployed … disproportionate challenges during the pandemic. They were more inclined to transition into precarious employment arrangements and … experienced lower levels of employment stability in the months following re-employment. …

displacement entails a persistent fall in earnings upon re-employment due to the loss of tenure. The model is solved numerically …