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Innovation and employment : a survey
Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2007
"According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451834
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Primum vivere... industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment
Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683015
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Job creation and loss : analysis, policy, and data development
1996
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On the introduction of firing costs
Ahrens, Steffen; Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2009
This paper provides a survey of the recent literature about firing costs and discusses the transmission channels of firing costs in a partial equilibrium context. In addition, we expand our analysis two types of firing costs in a New Keynesian model with purely endogenous separations. We further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884839
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Mandated severance pay and firing cost distortions : a critical review of the evidence
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
Severance pay mandates are an appealing job displacement insurance strategy in developing countries, which have only modest government administrative capacities, but they carry the threat of adverse indirect effects. A critical review of the empirical literature reveals that severance benefit...
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Estimating duration of economic damages in wrongful termination cases : recent literature on duration and magnitude of earnings losses from job loss
Roney, Thomas - In: Journal of legal economics 18 (2012) 2, pp. 107-127
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A review of the recent empirical literature on displaced workers
Fallick, Bruce - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 50 (1996) 1, pp. 5-16
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Downsizing and HRM strategy : is there a relationship?
Kane, Robert L. - In: International journal of employment studies 6 (1998) 2, pp. 43-70
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Rekruttering, afskedigelse og marginalisering : en litteraturstudie
Langager, Klaus - 1993
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Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different...
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