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Construction Contracts (or: "How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?")

Chakravarty, Surajeet; MacLeod, W. Bentley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...

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Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Moreno-Monroy, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of … account for 90 per cent of total manufacturing employment. In order to contrast between a 'modernization' and a 'stagnation … traditional informal activities is related to increased outsourcing by formal manufacturing enterprises. …

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Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data

Lamarche, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This...

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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach

Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

nonneutral technical change between production and nonproduction labor in U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1959-1996 period …

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The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms' Production Factor Decisions

Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

capital operating time. We suggest the use of a panel data approach applied to manufacturing data. A dynamic model is …

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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...

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Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone …. The study uses data at the individual level from a recent labour survey of organised manufacturing industries in India …

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Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

manufacturing industry. …

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Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing

Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Italian Manufacturing. The latter represents an interesting case study due to the prevalence of small family business and a …

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Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

It is generally believed that the structural reforms that usher in competition and force companies to become more efficient were introduced later in India following the macroeconomic crisis in 1991. However, whether the post-1991 growth is an outcome of more efficient use of resources or greater...

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