Market economies experience high rates of job creation and job destruction in almost every
time period and sector. Each year, many businesses expand and many others contract. New …

We survey recent microeconometric research on investment and employment that has used
panel data on individual firms or plants. We focus on model specification and econometric …

This paper investigates the change in worker flows (ie net growth, but also hiring and
separation rates) around an investment in automation-intensive goods and, within firms …

The simultaneous use of strong employment protection and temporary jobs observed in
many European countries seems contradictory since the former aims at limiting job …

This article provides an overview of empirical and theoretical research on dual labor
markets. It revisits the labor-market effects of dual employment protection legislation as well …

Matched employer-employee data contain information collected from households and
individuals as well as information collected from businesses or establishments. Both …

Many theoretical models of labor market search imply a tight link between worker flows
(hires and separations) and job gains and losses at the employer level. We use rich …

This article analyses the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative
data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had …

We examine administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the
long-term effects of an early career job loss. To account for nonrandom sorting of workers …

In this article, we use the structure of French labor law and the data from three linked
sources to estimate the costs of hiring, separation and retirement of employees for a …