dependence and placing the emphasis on their joint, forward-looking behavior. Using estimation of aggregate, private sector U … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … substantial role for aggregate labor market conditions in hiring costs, whereby the latter are lower in good times. The fit of the …

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical … compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters). We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of 'technology'. Thus our definition of production … function is amended to accommodate several technology shifters which are not separable from the traditional inputs. That is …

call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …

In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a … representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of … of hiring into fixed-term contracts. But these costs are small in comparison to the costs of retiring or terminating …

Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of … household members consume market goods with given household income. The ?costs of children? are perceived essentially as market … consumption costs. This ignores the fact that an important, possibly preponderant element of child costs takes the form of …