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Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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properties of employment and unemployment equilibrium. Second, it applies the model to the study of employment fluctuations and … unemployed workers from inactivity to production (the ‘job creation’ flow) and one for the flow of workers from employment to … flows are equal. The model is shown to explain well the employment fluctuations observed in the US economy, within the …
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case of employer initiated job separations. According to the extensive literature on Employment Protection Legislation such …
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case of employer initiated job separations. According to the extensive literature on Employment Protection Legislation such …
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employment stability makes their human capital investment more profitable and increases labor productivity and morale, firms …
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In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can be undone by a properly designed labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content to this proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental...
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significantly lower reductions in future employment probabilities. These findings suggest that compositional differences cause …
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This paper shows that the effects of employment protection critically depend on its enforcement. For this purpose, we … capture evasion of employment protection via market exit in a setting of monopolistic competition. We find that the number of … firms entering the market depends on firing costs only in the case of imperfect enforcement of employment protection …
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This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the exit-and-entry (extensive) margin, and the hiring-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize...
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