Labour adjustment costs: Estimation of a dynamic discrete choice model using panel data for Greek manufacturing firms

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 521-533

  Lapatinas, Athanasios ^a,b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dynamic discrete choice model; Employment growth; Labour adjustment costs; Method of simulated moments; Panel data; Structural estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749106903     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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