Negative Shocks, Job Creation, and Selection

High inter-country variability characterises the responsiveness of both output to (exogenous) shocks and employment to output contractions. We argue that intercountry differences in firm-size distributions contribute to explaining this variability. Within an open economy model, we show that competit...

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Volume:	11
Main Author:	Kopasker, Daniel Görg, Holger Molana, Hassan Montagna, Catia
Format:	Paper
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Vienna WWWforEurope 2013
published in:	WWWforEurope Working Paper Vol. 11
Data of publication:	2013
Subjects:	competitive selection Job creation employment subsidies international trade
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	EconStor Database information Databases - DBIS