This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary workers affect firms’ TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions, firms’ temp-to-perm conversion rates go down when this gap increases. Temporary workers respond to lower...

Employees (N=92) from the USA and Mexico completed questionnaires that measured rule-breaking, drug use, and attitudes toward theft. Integrity-related variable clusters had significant intercorrelations. Rule-breaking correlated with supervisor evaluations of work performance in Spanish and with...