the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker's absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level).We find a …

E fficiency wages theories argue that the threat of ring, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker's absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …