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

Autor, David H. - 2000

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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Lee Bounds With Multilayered Sample Selection

Kroft, Kory; Mourifié, Ismael; Vayalinkal, Atom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When training affects worker sorting to firms, sample selection is no longer binary but is "multilayered". This paper extends the canonical Heckman (1979) sample selection model - which...

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Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?

Autor, David H. - 2000

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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The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) for use in empirical economic analysis. Applying unsupervised text-as-data algorithms to a new collection of 30,000 CBAs from Canada in the period 1986-2015, we parse legal...

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Firms with Benefits? Nonwage Compensation and Implications for Firms and Labor Markets

Ouimet, Paige; Tate, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using administrative data on health insurance, retirement, and leave benefits, we find within-firm variation accounts for a dramatically lower percentage of total variation in benefits than in wages. We also document sharply higher between-firm variation in nonwage benefits than in wages. We...

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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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Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender

Hu, Luojia - 2005

This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and complex. The lemons effect of layoff holds for white...

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

Ilut, Cosmin - 2014

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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