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. -- severance pay ; firing costs ; hiring costs ; separation rate ; employment …
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seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple - a bonding …, formal measures of severance-induced firing costs and hiring costs are derived. Firing costs are, it turns out …, systematically less than benefit generosity alone would imply. Moreover their interrelationship with hiring costs, often employed in …
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; severance pay ; moral hazard ; firing costs …
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cost distortions by substituting severance savings plans, which have zero firing costs. Indeed severance insurance plans …
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Unemployment insurance replacement rates world-wide are well below 100 percent, a fact often attributed to search moral hazard concerns. As Blanchard and Tirole (2008) have illustrated, however, neither search nor layoff moral hazard (firing cost) distortions need arise in first-best insurance...
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seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding …, formal measures of severance-induced firing costs and hiring costs are derived. Firing costs are, it turns out …, systematically less than benefit generosity alone would imply. Moreover their interrelationship with hiring costs, often employed in …
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Severance pay mandates are an appealing job displacement insurance strategy in developing countries, which have only modest government administrative capacities, but they carry the threat of adverse indirect effects. A critical review of the empirical literature reveals that severance benefit...
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Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that predicted severance plan consequences depend critically on the precise structure of the plan. Whether governments mandate (i) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans...
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