's labor turnover costs (e.g. costs of hiring, training, and firing). In this context, labor turnover costs not only influence …

We provide new empirical evidence regarding the magnitude and the determinants of a firm's costs required to fill a … vacancy. The average costs required to fill a vacancy for a skilled worker in Switzerland amount to about 16 weeks of wage … payments. The main components of the vacancy costs are initially low productivity, the formal instruction of a new hire (53 …

to 58%, measured either in terms of reductions in data collection costs or in terms of improvements in the precision of …

reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden's workforce. Our difference-in-differences analysis of … their hiring standards in response to changes in dismissal costs. …

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic …

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 …

costs and thereby regional mobility and unemployment. The paper analyzes the impact of symmetric and asymmetric shocks on … that moving costs reduce job search effort and search effectiveness. …

costs of referees alone of at least $50 million. This process leads to remarkably longer publication lags than in other …