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
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
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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