This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

present an integrated approach to wage and employment determination in an economy where firms pay above market efficiency … wages to prevent trained workers from quitting.The model offers predictions about the behavior of formal employment, labor …), changes in the desirability of self-employment (formal sector tax rates), and the cost of training a new worker. They use …

of routine employment and its consequent impacts on inequality. …

such groups of regions react differently to key drivers of employment and wage setting. We find that the low income (high … turn, the high income (low employment) ones are more sensitive to the wage-productivity gap, and thus to the strategy that …

How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate … a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and … convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a structural equation for employment that we estimate on firm-level data …