employment of targets declines by more than half within two years after acquisitions relative to a matched sample, and is …

paper also demonstrates that it is problematic to use self-employment as an empirical proxy for productive entrepreneurship. …

This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms … after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The policy required new owners of the firms to commit to employment targets, with … penalties for non-compliance. Using a dynamic model, we highlight three channels through which employment targets impact firms …

central question tackled by the report is whether regulations related to limits on firms’ employment appear to prevent French …-employee-threshold on employment growth at the firm level are evaluated in particular. Firms are less likely to hire new …