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 entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....

The aim of this study is to shed light on the factors which determine the post-entry performance of new firms. It is often argued that new firms are the driving force of structural changes and sometimes they are even characterized as an engine of economic growth. Nevertheless, the empirical...

Der erwartete Frühjahrsaufschwung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt verlief bisher enttäuschend. Die Zahl der Arbeitslosen in ganz Deutschland verminderte sich im April 1995 gegenüber dem Vormonat lediglich um 69.000 Personen (-1,9 %) auf einen Bestand von 3,60 Mill. Dieser Rückgang ist im wesentlichen...