Employment Protection, International Specialization, and innovation /

We develop a model to analyze the implications of firing costs on incentives for R and D and international specialization. The key idea is that, to avoid paying firing costs, the country with a rigid labor market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at a late stage of their product life cyc...

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Autor principal: Saint-Paul, Gilles
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/016
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF