On the effectiveness of firing costs

Labour Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-354

  Chen, Yu Fu ^a   Zoega, Gylfi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Firing costs; Interest rates; J23; J65; Persistence of labour demand shocks; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041597223     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(99)00006-8     Document Type: Article

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