Gross Job Flows and Institutions in Europe

By Ramón Gómez-Salvador, Julián Messina, Giovanna Vallanti. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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We examine job flows in the 1990s for a sample of 13 European countries. By using a dataset of continuing firms that covers all sectors, we find firm characteristics to be important determinants of job flows, with smaller and younger firms within services typically having a larger degree of job turnover. Once controlled for firm and sectoral effects, the role of institutions in the dynamics of job creation and destruction is examined. As expected, employment protection is found to reduce job flows. Similarly, countries with higher unemployment benefits and more coordinated wage bargaining systems are characterised by lower job flows.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Labor market policies and IMF advice in advanced economies during the Great Recession (2013, unknown): “The evidence on the impact of unemployment benefits on flows of workers or jobs is mixed (see, for instance, Gómez-Salvador, Messina, and Vallanti, 2004; Boeri and Garibaldi, 2009; and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010).”
What Drives the Dynamics of Business Growth (2016, background): “Strict EPL also reduces job creation and destruction amongst incumbent firms, at least in European countries (Gomez-Salvador et al. 2004), with the latter effect being particularly significant.”
Setting It Right: Employment Protection, Labour Reallocation and Productivity (2011, methodology): “Data on job flows by country and industries are taken from Haltiwanger et al. (2006). These datasets are constructed using the same protocol from either business registers or tax files and are therefore comparable (see also Bartelsman et al.”
The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries (2009, unknown): “At the cross-country level, Gomez-Salvador et al. (2004), Micco and Pages (2004) and Haltiwanger et al. (2006) among others exploit cross-country differences in EPL to establish a negative relationship between job flows and firing restrictions.”
What do we know about the capital structure of small firms? (2012, unknown): “19 The representativeness of the Amadeus data is also presented in Gomez-Salvador et al. (2004).”
Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe (2007, unknown): “…are obtained with alternative indices such as the time-variant index developed by Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) and used in the context of cross-country regressions of job flows by Gómez-Salvador et al. (2004). employment losses (in absolute value) over all contracting firms between t− 1 and t.”
Age or size? Contributions to job creation (2014, background): “The different levels of job turnover across Europe were examined by Gomez-Salvador et al. (2004), who conducted an EU cross-country study based on large firms.”
Female labour market participation in Europe: novel evidence on trends and shaping factors (2014, background): “(2009) show that the influence of part-time on participation is positive only where part-time jobs are perceived to be of ‘high quality’. 8With regard to the effect of the presence of an elderly relative on women labour supply, the existing studies have not determined a clear relationship. Wolf and ”