On the effects of firing costs when investment is endogenous: An extension of a model by Bertola

European Economic Review

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1343-1353

  Risager, Ole ^a   Sørensen, Jan Rose ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Employment; Firing costs; Investment; Job security; Profitability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005771063     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(96)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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