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Layoffs with Payoffs: A Bargaining Model of Union Wage and Severance Pay Determination

Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

imperfectly competitive labour market where unions and firms bargain over wages and redundancy pay, the implicit contract result …

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Firing Costs, Unions and Employment

Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting feature of this model is that the contract curve is vertical. Some of the predictions of the model are confronted with the available British data on non-statutory firing costs,...

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Pay Differences Between Men and Women: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1946 Birth Cohort

Joshi, Heather; Newell, Marie-Louise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...

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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be …

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Competitiveness, Wage Adjustment and Macroeconomic Policy in a Small Open Economy

Alogoskoufis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

assuming that the traded goods sector is competitive while the non-traded goods sector is oligopolistic, I show that real wages …

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Outward Investment, Employment and Wages in Swedish Multinationals

Blomström, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …

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Importing Jobs or Exporting Firms? A Close Look at the Labour Market Implications of Italy's Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Flows

Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M; Galeotti, Marzio; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...

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The Effects of Immigration on US Wages and Rents: A General Equilibrium Approach

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … natives of different schooling levels we find positive effects on the wages and rents of highly educated and small effects on …

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A Pint a Day Raises a Man's Pay; But Smoking Blows that Gain Away

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …

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Investment, Wages and Ownership During the Transition to a Market Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Firms

Prasnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

(and trade-off between) investment and wages in Slovenian firms. We find that investment behaviour is more consistent with … display a trade-off between investment and wages, and workers share in firms’ surplus and appropriate funds that are supposed …

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