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Adjustment Costs, Uncertainty and Employment Inertia

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  • Una-Louise Bell

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Excessive levels of firing costs have been consistently blamed for the relatively weak employment in Europe, yet the concusions to be drawn from the literature are somewhat ambiguous. The paper re-examines the impact of adjustment costs under uncertainty.

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  • Una-Louise Bell, 1996. "Adjustment Costs, Uncertainty and Employment Inertia," Working Papers 9620, Banco de España.
    • Handle: RePEc:bde:wpaper:9620
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    1. Chen Yu-Fu & Funke Michael, 2004. "Working Time and Employment Under Uncertainty," Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, De Gruyter, vol. 8(3), pages 1-23, September.

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    Keywords

    UNCERTAINTY; EMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOUR MARKET;
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    JEL classification:

    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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