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Employment Protection and Firm Relocation : Theory and Evidence

Dewit, Gerda - 2018

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...

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Sensitivity to shocks and implicit employment protection in family firms

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - 2014

In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product market fluctuations, both at the industry and at the firm level. This supports the idea that family firms are able to offer their employees implicit employment protection....

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Unsettled: job insecurity reduces home-ownership

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2024 - This version: May 2024

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Unsettled : job insecurity reduces home-ownership

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2024

We here evaluate the link between job insecurity and one of the most-important decisions that individuals take: homeownership. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax on firms that laid off older workers produced an unexpected exogenous rise in job insecurity for younger workers. A...

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Unsettled: job insecurity reduces homeownership

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2024

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Employment protection and investment opportunities

Loderer, Claudio; Waelchli, Urs; Zeller, Jonas - 2016

We examine the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on individual firms' growth opportunities, as measured by Tobin's q. On the one hand, by increasing job security, EPL spurs innovation effort. Yet that boost only occurs in firms with little comparative advantage at original...

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Labor market flexibility and inward foreign direct investment

Kamata, Isao - 2020

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The impact of uncertainty on investment : a meta-analysis

Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond … - 2006

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …

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Overpricing persistence in experimental asset markets with intrinsic uncertainty

Sornette, Didier; Andraszewicz, Sandra; Wu, Ke; Murphy, … - 2019

market set -up that accounts for fundamental uncertainty. Nonetheless, the market is designed so that its total value is …

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Credit intermediation and the transmission of macrofinancial uncertainty : international evidence

Gächter, Martin; Geiger, Martin; Stöckl, Sebastian - 2019

We examine the transmission of global macro-financial uncertainty to economic activity depending on the current state … of the banking sector. Previous literature suggests that credit supply and uncertainty shocks are important drivers of … surprisingly simple measure of macro-financial uncertainty at the global level while the state of credit intermediation is being …

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