1 option
Assessing job flows across countries : the role of industry, firm size and regulations / John Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta, Helena Schweiger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haltiwanger, John C.
- Series:
- Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ; working paper no. 13920.
- World Bank e-Library.
- NBER working paper series ; working paper 13920
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- NBER working paper series vol. working paper 13920
- Assessing Job Flows Across Countries
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2008.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- "This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows. However, large residual differences remain in the job flow patterns across countries. To account for the latter, the paper explores the role of differences in employment protection legislation across countries. Using a difference-in-difference approach that minimizes possible endogeneity and omitted variable problems, our findings show that hiring and firing costs tend to curb job flows, particularly in those industries and firm size classes that require more frequent labor adjustment"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.