shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However … employment effects if effort can be varied continuously. A substitution of the earnings-related for the lump-sum component … reduces employment. Thus, the prevalent form of severance payments in OECD countries might have less advantageous employment …

and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …

indicator for employment. Discussing current trends in vacancies, this is often assumed: An increase in the number of job … vacancies gets linked to good prospects for employment. What has been missing is empirical evidence that is grounded on … hires. The latter were drawn from the statistics of the German Federal Employment Agency. The effect is strongest with a …

universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in …

clear-cut result of our analysis is the strong positive effect of new private firms on net employment growth, a finding … established for other transition economies as well. At the same time, we do not find differences in the employment growth of state … employment growth and of size and job reallocation. Finally, we establish that strong foreign trade links force firms to shed …