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Outsourcing at Will : Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment

Autor, David H. - 2021

a simple model of employment outsourcing, the primary implication of which is that firms will respond to externally … imposed firing costs by outsourcing positions requiring the least firm-specific skills rather than those with the highest … ongoing employment, led to 14 to 22 percent excess temporary help growth in adopting states. Unjust dismissal doctrines did …

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Layoffs, Lemons and Temps

House, Christopher L. - 2012

We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of labor demand with adverse selection. Firms learn the quality of newly hired workers after a period of employment. Adverse selection makes it costly to hire new workers and to release productive workers. As a result, firms hoard labor and under-react to...

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Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?

Autor, David H. - 2021

Nominally free, unrestricted training in portable computer skills is offered by the majority of U.S. temporary help supply (THS) establishments, a practice that is inconsistent with the competitive model of training. This paper asks why temporary help firms provide free general skills training....

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Labour Market Regulations and Capital Intensity

Cette, Gilbert - 2016

On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...

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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert - 2014

through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …

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Hires and Separations in Equilibrium

Lazear, Edward P. - 2017

Hiring is positively correlated with separation, both across firms and over time. A theory of hiring and separation based on shifts in demand implies the opposite. One firm or industry hires and grows when another fires and contracts. But hiring for expansion and layoff for contraction comprises...

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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness : The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Andersson, Fredrik - 2014

This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employer-employee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. The basic...

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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire : Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News

Ilut, Cosmin L. - 2020

Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...

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The Firm's Role in Displaced Workers' Earnings Losses

Scott-Clayton, Judith E. - 2019

We use employer-employee matched administrative data from Ohio to study the role of firm pay premiums in explaining the large, persistent earnings losses of displaced workers. We estimate that earnings for displaced workers from the mid-2000s are depressed by 22 percent after four years,...

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The Effect of Tuition Reimbursement on Turnover : A Case Study Analysis

Manchester, Colleen Flaherty - 2013

Tuition reimbursement programs provide financial assistance for direct costs of education and are a type of general skills training program commonly offered by employers in the United States. Standard human capital theory argues that investment in firm-specific skills reduces turnover, while...

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