Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses

January 14, 2015

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Vivek Ghosal, and Yang Ye. Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment, and the effects are primarily felt by the relatively smaller businesses; the impact on large businesses are generally non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to focus on the relatively smaller and entrepreneurial businesses. We discuss implications for the framing of economic policy.

Subject: Economic sectors, Employment, Fuel prices, Inflation, Labor, Prices, Small and medium enterprises

Keywords: BLS fuel price indices, Business group, Costs firms face, Dependent variable, Employment, Employment decision, Entrepreneurship, Financing-constraints, Financing-constraints channel, Fuel price uncertainty, Fuel prices, Global, Inflation, Inflation rate, Price index, Real GDP, Real-options, Representative firm, Size class, Small and medium enterprises, Small businesses, Stock price index, Uncertainty, Uncertainty measure, Venture capital, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

49
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Working Paper No. 2015/004
Stock No:

WPIEA2015004
ISBN:

9781475552515
ISSN:

1018-5941

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