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We analyze the effect of labor mobility and innovation on productivity growth. With event-study analysis based on exogenous worker deaths and shift-share international trade shocks, we show that both the extent and direction of worker mobility affect firm productivity. We develop a...

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Employment protection and the market for innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - 2015

We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...

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Growth Externalities, Unions, and Long-Term Wage Accords

Zagler, Martin - 2013

This paper presents an innovation driven endogenous growth model, where firms and unions bargain over wages. We find that the degree of centralization of the bargaining structure plays a crucial rule for economic performance. Central bargaining, which incorporates the leapfrogging externality...

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Shielding Firm Value : Employment Protection and Process Innovation

Bena, Jan - 2020

Following state-level legal changes that increase labor dismissal costs, firms increase their innovation in new processes that facilitate the adoption of cost-saving production methods, especially in industries with a large share of labor costs in total costs. Firms with high innovation ability...

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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations

Bastgen, Andreas - 2015

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Employment protection legislation and job reallocation across sectors, firms and workers

Cahuc, Pierre; Palladino, Marco G. - 2024

This chapter provides a review of the existing literature on the effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on job allocation across industries, firms, and workers, and its implications for innovation and economic growth. We analyze empirical studies to assess how EPL influences resource...

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Essays on entrepreneurship, venture capital and innovation

Landier, Augustin - 2002

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Managing the Risk of Trade Secret Loss Due to Job Mobility in an Innovation Economy with the Theory of Inevitable Disclosure

Reder, Margo E. K.; O'Brien, Christine Neylon - 2012

secrets. This article examines the controversial theory of inevitable disclosure - that use or disclosure of the former … misappropriation. Some states have adopted this theory, while others steadfastly refuse to, and this has created notable differences in … employment patterns, job mobility, innovation and more. Courts consider this theory on motions for equitable relief but the …

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Weaker jobs, weaker innovation : exploring the temporary employment-product innovation nexus

Cetrulo, Armanda; Cirillo, Valeria; Guarascio, Dario - 2018

This work explores the relationship between temporary employment and product innovation focusing on five major European economies (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands) observed between 1998 and 2012. Building on the conceptual framework proposed by Kleinknecht et al. (2014), the...

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Labor law and innovation revisited

Francis, Bill B.; Kim, Incheol; Wang, Bin; Zhang, Zhengyi - In: Journal of banking & finance 94 (2018), pp. 1-15

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