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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
product and labor markets on excess job reallocation and on the productivity-enhancing effects of job flows. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262315
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Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share
Brooks, Wyatt - 2019
How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group … of cooperating firms. The theory guides the measurement of labor “markdowns”, i.e., the gap between wage and the value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890473
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Worker Adaptation and Employer Accommodation Following the Onset of a Health Impairment
Daly, Mary C.; Bound, John - 2021
The responses of workers and their employers to the onset of work-limiting health impairments were investigated using data from the new Health and Retirement Survey. The results indicate that many workers who suffer from health limitations are directly accommodated by their employers, and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246996
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Job creation and job destruction in Estonia: labour reallocation and structural changes
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2005
This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job creation and job destruction rates have been rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267645
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Costly Labor Adjustment : Effects of China's Employment Regulations
Cooper, Russell - 2012
This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new … compensation. We estimate a model of costly labor adjustment from data prior to the policy. We use the estimated model to simulate … reduction in labor reallocation and an increase in the exit rate. A policy of credit market liberalization will reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108256
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably … period of weak labor demand, it is now the supply side of the labor market thatconstrains job creation... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861190
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262088
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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are uncovered through decomposition and cluster analyses. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884247
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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics: TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation
Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017
The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744658
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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - 2014
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components - real wages, capital intensity, and technology - are uncovered through decomposition and cluster analyses. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377355