disproportionately falls on youths in countries with stricter employment protection. This implies that a higher adjustment cost of an … existing workforce induces the employment adjustment of new entrants into the labor market. -- unemployment ; labor market …

The paper presents different lengths of working capital cycle and cash conversion cycle in manufacturing companies in …

rules. We demonstrate the usefulness of this method in an application to dairy product manufacturing in New Zealand, where …

effect on employment growth in the Greek manufacturing sector. However, it strengthens the effect of exports, new … manufacturing sector. The study is based on firm-level economic data of 1418 firms and covers the time period from 1995 to 2004. The … ; manufacturing ; financial performance …

This paper studies long-term trends of self-employment in Chile. Self-employment is associated with poor job conditions …, vulnerability, and instability or informal labor market. Contrary to what is expected, self- employment level does not respond to … macroeconomic variables. Using forty-one cross sections of the longest Employment Survey available, we show that there is little …

This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This … with a substantial decline in the wage employment-to-population rate of young workers. In contrast, we do not find such a … decline in young self-employment rates or in the wage employment rates of older workers. Comparing results for men and women …

ein niedrigeres Einkommen als zuvor in abhängiger Beschäftigung. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; start-ups …

evaluations of minimum wages for specific industries. The present paper discusses the empirical studies on the wage and employment … employment effects. Both the limited available data and general employment trends in this sector make such evaluation studies … employment effects of introducing a general minimum wage can be derived from the results of evaluations of sector …