Black-owned businesses tend to operate with less finance and employ fewer workers than those owned by Whites. Motivated a simple conceptual framework, we document these facts show they are causally connected using large firm-level surveys linked universal employer data from the Census Bureau. We find that racial financing gap is most pronounced at start-up tends narrow firm age. At any age, fir...

The objective of this paper is to empirically analyze the relationship between job flows and regional income stabilization provided by the national tax and transfer systems. The analysis is based on an administrative panel data set containing all sectors in 20 Swedish regions for the time period 1989-2000. Controlling for unobserved regional effects we find that a high net tax-income ratio tend...

The objective of this paper is to determine the main factors behind poor labor market outcomes in Bulgaria. Unemployment in Bulgaria is high and of long duration. The accumulation of the unemployment stock has been caused by relatively high inflows into unemployment coupled with limited outflows. These features of the Bulgarian labor market are quite typical of other transition economies of Cen...

We use search and bargaining theory to develop an empirically tractable specification of the job creation curve and to derive an instrumental variable strategy to estimate and test its validity. We estimate the job creation curve using city-level observations for 1970-2007. We find that U.S. city-industry level labor market outcomes conform well to restrictions implied by search and bargaining ...

ISSN 2277-5056 | © 2013 Bonfring Abstract--This study aims at exploring the impact of high performance HR practices on employees’ job performance. The study sought to establish the effect of job design, training and development, motivation, supervisory support, working environment and compensation on employees’ job performance in Leather goods manufacturing companies at Vellore district. The re...

The matching function has become a popular tool in labor economics. It relates job creation – a flow variable – to two stock variables: vacancies and job searchers. In most studies the matching function is exogenous and assumed to fulfill certain properties. This study looks at the properties of an endogenous matching function. For that purpose we program an agent-based-computational labor mark...