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Trade unions distort a profit-maximising firm's input choice. The nature of the resulting inefficiency depends on whether there is wage or efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby affect welfare. If firms also pursue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)...
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The United States is often hailed as the world's largest 'free market'. But this 'free market' is also the world's largest penal colony. It holds over seven million adults – roughly five per cent of the labour force – in jail, in prison, on parole and on probation. Is this an anomaly, or...
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with the analysed phenomena. In this paper, provincial time series of unemployment rates in Spain are used in order to … along time and with the effects of scale in the regionalisation process. Keywords: Unemployment, normative region …
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Labour market is characterized in Spain by a high persistence in unemployment rates. One of the main reasons of this … mainly respond, though weakly, to the differentials of wages, unemployment rates and house prices between regions; third …, migratory flows are also affected, to a great extent, by non economic factors. Keywords: migratory flows, regions, unemployment …
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Most transition economies have experienced a prolonged periods of high unemployment rates and decline of the growth … common development patterns in selected countries. Furthermore, since the unemployment is severe problem in most of the … limitations imposed on the interpretations of our results due to the fact. Key words: RGDP, unemployment, comparative regional …
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local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be … western Germany over the period 1990-97. Key words: Unemployment, wage formation, spatial analysis, local monopsony, Germany …
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variables as well as for labour market factors such as unemployment rates, income and house prices. We compare several model … specifications. Results on employment/unemployment are fairly consistent across models. Results on other variables, for instance …
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, such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, household savings and use them to compare the regional disparities …
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of unemployment rate and average wages on crime in a region committed by non-residents, as well as implement a gravity …
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-being and paradoxically can be even more harmful than actual job loss with subsequent unemployment. …
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