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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Huvudupphovsman: Saint-Paul, Gilles
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/016
Länkar:Full text available on IMF