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Study of Instruments and Tools to Anticipate the Effects of Industrial Change - Portuguese report

Moniz, António; Dinis, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996

This study was produced for the “Study of Instruments and Tools to anticipate the effects of industrial change on employment, trades and vocational qualifications” and for DG V (Employment) of the European Commission in the late 1994. It started when the previous Portuguese government was...

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Consequências da flexibilidade

Paulos, Margarida Ramires - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Processes such as globalization, the spread of information technology and the intensification of competition caused significant and meaningful changes in the labour market. On one hand there are some companies that invest in innovation and quality, allowing and encouraging the growth of workers...

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The impact of immigration on the labour market: Evidence from 20 years of cross-border migration to Argentina

Battiston, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I … wages. IV estimates suggest that OLS results are a lower bound for the (partial) causal effect. Thus, if confounding demand …

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The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Knight, John; Xia, Qingjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …

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The Harris-Todaro Hypothesis

Khan, M. Ali Khan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of ‘expected’ wages as the basic … unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban wages is specified. This article reviews work in which the Harris …

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On wage formation, wage flexibility and wage coordination : A focus on the wage impact of productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States

Peeters, Marga; Den Reijer, Ard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the … resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of wages in depth. The findings show that in … steer wages, policy makers can effectively use the replacement rate. …

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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities

Wall, Howard J. - 2011

This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of non-neighboring cities, although this is due primarily to neighbors' tendency to be in the same state. In...

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The Future of the Fence Around the EU Labour Market

Kox, Henk L.M. - 2016

The paper investigates the welfare aspects of the European Union's restrictions on labour immigration, especially the restrictions on the free movement of medium- and low-skilled labour from outside the EU. The welfare implications of restrictive labour immigration are found to be considerable,...

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Employment protection and income inequality: is there a role for the informal sector?

Gkinni, Eleni; Vasilaki, Eleni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper seeks to examine the effect of employment protection on income inequality. By employing the employment protection data developed by Botero et al. (2004) as well as well established measures of economic inequality for a sample of 83 countries, our analysis suggests that increased...

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How Large are Firing Costs? A Cross-Country Study

Wesselbaum, Dennis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper provides evidence for the size of firing costs for eight countries. In contrast to the existing literature, we use the optimality conditions obtained in a search and matching model to find a reduced form equation for firing costs. We find that our estimates are slightly larger...

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