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Employment, Innovation and Union Bargaining Models: New Tests and Evidence from UK Manufacturing Firms

Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper investigates the impact of innovation on employment using a panel of UK manufacturing firms and a headcount … bargains. Innovation is found to have positive effect on company employment raising it by 9--12% in the short run and up to 40 … bargaining models. It also argues that the innovation effect can be used to distinguish between shirking models and union …

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Learning for Employment, Innovating for Growth

Falkinger, Josef; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning … opportunities differ across workers determine simultaneously the long-run level of employment and the long-run rate of growth. We … rates but not necessarily less employment. The effects of redistributive policy measures among workers depend on the form of …

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Factors and Effects of Trade Reorientation in Hungary

Halpern, László - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...

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How are Product Demand Changes Transmitted to the Labour Market?

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

product demand can affect employment under these conditions. The analysis suggests that the longer-term effectiveness of …

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The Effects of the Tax-Benefit System on UK Unemployment: A Microeconomic Analysis

Beenstock, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

employment, using explanatory variables such as tax and social security benefit rates. Other variables represent the … estimates do not suggest that employment is significantly explained by the tax-benefit system. Nevertheless, we simulate the …

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Outward Investment, Employment and Wages in Swedish Multinationals

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

Examining detailed data on Swedish MNCs during the period 1986-1994, this paper shows that there are signs of very notable structural changes in the home country operations of these corporations. It also shows that the character of these changes varies according to economic conditions in the...

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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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Flexible Wages Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

, however, that HPWOs affect their employment structure. …

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New Men and New Women? A Comparison of Paid Work Propensities from a Panel Data Perspective

Booth, Alison L; Jenkins, Stephen P; Serrano, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using panel data probit regression models, the paper also...

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How Labour Market Flexibility Affects Unemployment: Long-Term Implications of the Chain Reaction Theory

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the outcome of the interplay between labour market shocks...

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