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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times : Sweden 1913-1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 2012

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market

Cockx, Bart - 2015

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...

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Estimated U.S. Manufacturing Production Capital and Technology Based on an Estimated Dynamic Economic Model

Chen, Baoline; Zadrozny, Peter A. - 2021

Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … of capital and technology for the sample period. We apply the method to annual data from 1947-97 for U.S. total …

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics

Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …

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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakēs, Emmanuēl - 2021

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as …

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Firm Level Productivity Under Imperfect Competition in Output and Labor Markets

Amoroso, Sara - 2010

This article examines the role of the interaction between product market and labor market imperfections in determining total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach, allowing for the possibility that wages are...

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Unemployment and Finance: How do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?

Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - CESifo - 2009

Using annual data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate how labour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We show that the impact of financial variables depends...

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Wages and Employment : The Role of Occupational Skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...

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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market : The Spanish Experience

Bentolila, Samuel - 2011

This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...

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