Holdings: Assessing Job Flows across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size, and Regulations

Assessing Job Flows across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size, and Regulations

This paper reviews the process of job creation and destruction across a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade. It exploits a harmonized firm-level data set drawn from business registers and enterprise census data. The paper assesses the importance of technological facto...

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Main Authors:	Haltiwanger, John, Scarpetta, Stefano, Schweiger, Helena
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AFFECTED WORKERS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT COUNTRY EFFECTS COUNTRY LEVEL CREATIVE DESTRUCTION CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSES CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES DOWNSIZING ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT GROWTH EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION LEGISLATION ENTERPRISE RESTRUCTURING ENTRY COSTS FIRING COSTS FIRM DYNAMICS FIRM ENTRY FIRM EXIT FIRM SIZE FIRM TURNOVER HIGH CORRELATION JOB CREATION JOB DESTRUCTION JOB DESTRUCTION RATE JOB FLOWS JOB LOSSES JOB REALLOCATION JOB TURNOVER JOBS LABOR ADJUSTMENT LABOR ADJUSTMENT COSTS LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET REGULATIONS LABOR MOBILITY LABOR REALLOCATION LABOR REGULATIONS LABOUR LATIN AMERICAN MEASUREMENT ERRORS NEGATIVE EFFECT NET EMPLOYMENT POLICY ENVIRONMENT POLICY RESEARCH PREVIOUS SECTION PREVIOUS STUDIES PRIVATE FIRMS PRODUCING GOODS PRODUCT MARKET PRODUCT MARKET REGULATIONS PRODUCT MARKETS PRODUCTION PROCESS PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH RELATIVE IMPORTANCE SELF EMPLOYED SERVICE INDUSTRY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES SIZE OF FIRMS SMALL FIRMS TOTAL EMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT WAGE BARGAINING WORKERS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/11/7208859/assessing-job-flows-across-countries-role-industry-firm-size-regulations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8873

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Assessing Job Flows across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size, and Regulations

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