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Employment protection and labour productivity growth in the EU : skill-specific effects during and after the Great Recession

Fedotenkov, Igor; Kvedaras, Virmantas; … - 2022

The paper investigates the relationship between employment protection legislation (EPL hereafter) and labour productivity growth in the EU in the context of the Great Recession. We consider the crisis and recovery periods, evaluate the relevance of both levels and changes in EPL for productivity...

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Employment protection legislation and job reallocation across sectors, firms and workers

Cahuc, Pierre; Palladino, Marco G. - 2024

This chapter provides a review of the existing literature on the effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on job allocation across industries, firms, and workers, and its implications for innovation and economic growth. We analyze empirical studies to assess how EPL influences resource...

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Rigidities in Employment Protection and Exporting

??eker, Murat - 2012

A large number of studies have shown that contribution of exporters to economic growth and development is much higher than non-exporting firms. This evidence has lead governments to improve their trade policies in order to increase foreign exposure of firms. However, improvements in trade...

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Does the effect of employment protection depend on the composition of unemployment?

Bastgen, Andreas - In: Journal for labour market research 58 (2024) 1, pp. 1-28

I develop an equilibrium-matching model with job rationing and endogenous layoffs in order to investigate whether the composition of unemployment (rationing versus frictional) influences the way firing costs affect employment. The model suggests that firing costs lead to a strong adverse...

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How do investment promotion policies affect sustainability?

Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; … - 2023 - This version: December 2023

Sustainability has become an imperative. Understanding the effects of countries' policies thereon has therefore acquired vital importance. This is particularly the case with ubiquitous policies such as investment promotion. In this paper, we address this timely policy question from an...

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The manufacturing reshoring phenomenon : a policy-oriented analysis of factors driving the location decision

Bornert, Xavier; Musolino, Dario - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 5, pp. 1-19

For several decades, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have offshored their manufacturing activities to low-cost countries to achieve significant productivity gains. However, changes in the relative competitiveness of countries, social effects of deindustrialization in advanced economies and the...

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Offshoring of white-collar jobs : theory and evidence

Klimek, Artur - In: International journal of management and economics 57 (2021) 1, pp. 69-84

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABSs), referred to here as the offshoring of white …

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Exploitation-exploration balance and its performance outcomes : a study of FDI portfolio decisions of new multinationals

Trąpczyński, Piotr; Halaszovich, Tilo F. - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 4, pp. 115-129

the organisational learning theory, we conduct regression analysis based on data from 394 subsidiaries of new Polish …

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The connection between imported inputs and exports : the importance of strategic interdependence

Mukherjee, Arijit; Liu, Yao - In: Games 14 (2023) 1, pp. 1-14

Ignoring strategic interactions among final goods producers, the extant theoretical literature shows that lower costs of imported inputs increase the exports of the final goods using those inputs. Hence, it does not explain the empirically relevant positive relationship between the costs of...

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Internationalization of production in central European countries : what are the consequences for the labor market?

D̆urc̆ová, Julia; Stelmakh, Karina - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 27 (2025) 68, pp. 128-144

offshoring) and skill-biased technological change (represented by the intensity of investments in intangible capital) impact the … the panel data indicates that offshoring has a negative impact on the employment share of low- and medium-skilled labor … offshoring strikes low-skilled labor hardest. Furthermore, it has been confirmed that the increasing intensity of investment in …

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