We examine a number of personnel practices, laws and regulations that lower the supply of labor in the Japanese economy. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of impediments, those that restrict the movement of labor between firms, and those that discourage women from participating to a greater...

We examine a number of personnel practices, laws and regulations that lower the supply of labor in the Japanese economy. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of impediments, those that restrict the movement of labor between firms, and those that discourage women from participating to a greater...

In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching...

We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...

Police misconduct is at the top of the public policy agenda, but there is surprisingly little understanding of how police personnel management policies affect police misconduct. Police-civilian interactions in large jurisdictions are, in principle at least, highly regulated. However, these...

Programme zur Bekämpfung von Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit wie das "Teilhabechancengesetz" setzen systematisch zu spät an. Sie sind primär kurativ ausgerichtet und vernachlässigen komplett eine prophylaktische Komponente. Dies begünstigt die Entstehung zusätzlicher Vermittlungshemmnisse...

This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis in this paper is that we explain several stylized facts on labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics...

This study examines the relationship between technology inclusion and educational investment made by the Indonesian government on economic growth in Indonesia. This study uses secondary data from world banks and processed regression using the moving average autoregression method. We found that...

Programme zur Bekämpfung von Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit wie das "Teilhabechancengesetz" setzen systematisch zu spät an. Sie sind primär kurativ ausgerichtet und vernachlässigen komplett eine prophylaktische Komponente. Dies begünstigt die Entstehung zusätzlicher Vermittlungshemmnisse...