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Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment
Pfann, Gerard A.; Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2021
This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and contraction in a firm. We derive a Cox proportional hazard model from a simple model of job separation based on the expected surpluses from the firm and its workers. We account for...
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Options to Quit
Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021
This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker's decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model's closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior of...
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Fair Pay and a Wagebill Argument for Wage Rigidity and Excessive Employment Variability
Thomas, Jonathan - 2021
, with the result that too few hires are made in bad states of the world. Unemployment is involuntary. In an extension to the …
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Time to go? : head coach quits and dismissals in professional football
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert - 2017
That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options seems to be nothing more than a statement of the obvious. But owners may find it hard to distinguish poor performance from bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and...
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The role of the housing market in workers' resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2017
We examine the role of the housing market in workers' adjustment to job displacement. Dutch administrative data were used and analysed with a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement. The empirical design eliminates the potential of endogenous selection into labour turnover. The...
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Industry shutdown rates and permanent layoffs : evidence from firm-worker matched data
Huynh, Kim P.; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Petrunia, Robert J.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 7, pp. 1-31
Firm shutdown creates a turbulent situation for workers as it leads directly to layoffs for its workers. An additional consideration is whether a firm’s shutdown within an industry creates turbulence for workers at other continuing firms. Using data drawn from the Longitudinal Worker File, a...
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Working time accounts and turnover
Launov, Andrey - 2019
literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce layoffs and inhibit increases in unemployment during …
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The Effects of Employment Protection on Labor Turnover : Empirical Evidence from Taiwan
Kan, Kamhon; Lin, Yen-Ling - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of employment protection legislation on the rates of hiring, separation, worker flows, job reallocation, and churning flows for the case of Taiwan. Our empirical identification takes advantage of a reform created by Taiwan's enactment of Labor Standards Law,...
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The Effects of Managerial Turnover : Evidence from Coach Dismissals in Italian Soccer Teams
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2009
In this paper sport data are used to study the effects of manager replacement on firm performance. Using match results of the major Italian soccer league ("Series A") we analyze the effects of coach (manager) changes in terms of team performance. From our preliminary estimates, including year...
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Reassessing the Shimer Facts
Fujita, Shigeru; Ramey, Garey - 2019
rates are nearly acyclic; and (2) separation rates contribute little to the variability of unemployment. In this paper the …) the measured contributions to unemployment variability do not actually decompose total unemployment variability. The … precise decomposition of unemployment variability. Their results disconfirm Shimer's conclusions. More specifically …
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