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Lay-off restraints, employment subsidies, and the demand for labour

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  • Siebert, Horst
  • Long, Ngo Van

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The paper introduces the concept of a firm's normal employment level as a weighted average of past employment levels and it analyzes the impact of an incentive scheme in which a firm receives a reward (or pays a penalty) when it deviates above (below) its normal employment level. The result is that such an institutional setting may imply a cyclical demand in labour. Thus, institutional arrangements may .be responsible for business cycles.

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  • Siebert, Horst & Long, Ngo Van, 1984. "Lay-off restraints, employment subsidies, and the demand for labour," Discussion Papers, Series I 190, University of Konstanz, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:kondp1:190
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