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outcomes. Lower barriers to foreign trade and investment help MFP. Lower barriers to entry and less pervasive state control of … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor … structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs …
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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor … structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318980
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor … structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319091
investment. Stepping up structural reforms will also be necessary if double-digit growth rates are to be achievable over the … improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition … and ensure continued strong investment are required. Labour market reforms are also required to promote job creation …
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investment through wide-ranging structural reforms. Areas that require reforms include the regulation of product and labour … institutions are particularly relevant, would stimulate private investment, facilitating the creation of new firms and jobs, and …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …
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We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....
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effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as … impacts. By contrast, the long-term impact of policies coming only via the employment rate channel materialises at shorter …
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