Firm-level shocks and labor adjustments

Arbeitspapier

We analyze how firms adjust their labor in response to idiosyncratic shifts in their production function and demand curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main driving force behind both job and worker reallocation. In contrast, shocks to physical productivity and temporary demand shocks have a very limited impact on firm-level employment despite being important determinants of other firm-level fundamentals. We also present evidence suggesting that the adjustment to permanent demand shocks is fairly unconstrained. Most notably, firms primarly downsize through increased separations of both short- and long-tenured workers even when they could have adjusted their employment through reduced hires.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014:28

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Demand ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Thema: technology ; demand ; job creation ; rigidities ; worker flows

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Carlsson, Mikael ; Messina, Julián ; Nordström Skans, Oskar
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (wo): Uppsala
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/106297
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ