Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35931 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4586
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in a large heterogeneity of flows and excess turnover. Large and older firms have lower flows, but high excess turnover rates. In small firms, hires and separations move symmetrically during expansion and contraction periods, on the contrary, large firms adjust their employment levels by reducing entry and not by increasing separations. Most hires and separations are on fixed-term contracts and shrinking firms replace a larger share of their separations under fixed-term contracts, while expanding firms replace most of the separations under open-ended contracts. The comparison with the U.S. shows that while worker and job flows are lower in Portugal, the excess turnover is remarkably close in the two countries.
Subjects: 
Job flows
worker flows
excess turnover
fixed-term contracts
firm size
JEL: 
J21
J23
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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