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Financing Labor / Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman, Amit Seru.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benmelech, Efraim.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17144.
- NBER working paper series no. w17144
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- Financial market imperfections can have significant impact on employment decisions of firms. We illustrate the economic importance of this channel by demonstrating that the responsiveness of employment decisions to firms' financial health is quantitatively similar to the much-studied responsiveness of investment decisions to cash-flows. We use a collage of three 'quasi-experiments' used previously in the investment-cash flow and finance-growth literatures to trace the effects of finance on employment. Our results suggest that financial constraints and the availability of credit play an important role in firm-level employment decisions, as well as aggregate unemployment outcomes
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2011.
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