an extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels are largely constant throughout our sample. This can be due to …, small fixed costs of adjustment have a large impact on entry and exit job flows. -- Adjustment costs ; employment ; rigidity …This paper estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Our establishment level data displays …

on net or gross changes in employment. We estimate a structural model of dynamic labour demand where the firm faces … changes in employment from a panel of establishments. The main component of adjustment costs in our panel is quadratic … adjustment costs to gross changes in employment. We also estimate that adjustment costs have a large economic cost, roughly …

Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and … in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary employment - employment with fixed …

on net or gross changes in employment. We estimate a structural model of dynamic labour demand where the firm faces … changes in employment from a panel of establishments. The main component of adjustment costs in our panel is quadratic … adjustment costs to gross changes in employment. We also estimate that adjustment costs have a large economic cost, roughly …

Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and … in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary employment - employment with fixed …