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Frictions and the joint behavior of hiring and investment
Yashiv, Eran - 2012
The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores their dynamic behavior in the presence of frictions. It does so within a unified framework, stressing their mutual dependence and placing the emphasis on their joint,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548650
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Frictions and the Joint Behavior of Hiring and Investment
Yashiv, Eran - 2012
The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores their dynamic behavior in the presence of frictions. It does so within a unified framework, stressing their mutual dependence and placing the emphasis on their joint,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104684
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Does It Pay To Be a Woman? Labour Demand Effects of Maternity-Related Job Protection and Replacement Incomes
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014
In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand effects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046727
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The effects of reforming a federal employment agency on labor demand
Kraft, Kornelius; Lammers, Alexander - 2021
In this paper we report the results of an empirical study on the employment growth effects of a policy intervention, explicitly aimed at increasing placement efficiency of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany. We use the Hartz III reform in the year 2004 as an exogenous intervention that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603797
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers : Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - 2021
, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316640
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Teaching labor laws: evidence from a randomized control trial in South Africa
Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno - 2020
We assess whether imperfect knowledge of labor regulation hinders job creation at small and medium-sized firms. We partner with a labor law expert that provides information about labor regulation via newsletters and access to a specialized website. We randomly assign 1800 firms to get access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254266
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Labor Markets in EU8+2 : From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers
Rutkowski, Jan - 2007
Unemployment has fallen substantially in virtually all EU8+2 countries since 2004 due to strong growth in labor demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223468
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Infrequent Bankruptcy, Asymmetric Information, and Excess Labor in the Russian Economy
Brown, J. David - 1999
Even experienced, profit-maximizing managers in Russia may conduct less restructuring than otherwise, since the economy appears to be in an equilibrium in which each firm releases unproductive workers but retains excess productive workers because other firms do. If firms release their excess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206647
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427813
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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?
Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005 - This version: October 2007
This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high … unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the “refugee” effect). On the other hand, higher … rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods (the …
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