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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

Dew-Becker, Ian - 2008

Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...

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The Demand for Workers and Hours and the Effects of Job Security Policies : Theory and Evidence

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1986

There has been a wide variety of research on worker-hours substitution and the effects of various costs on the speed and extent to which labor demand adjusts. Much of this literature, though, confuses various types of fixed costs and fails to provide a guide for identifying how changes in...

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Sorting Between and Within Industries : A Testable Model of Assortative Matching

Abowd, John M. - 2014

workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …

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The Effect of Job Security Regulations on Labor Market Flexibility : Evidence from the Colombian Labor Market Reform

Kugler, Adriana - 2004

Job security provisions are widely believed to reduce dismissals and hiring. In addition, in developing countries job security is believed to reduce compliance with labor regulations and to increase informal activity. Reductions in dismissal costs are, thus, often advocated as a way to increase...

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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile

Edwards, Sebastian - 2000

This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent...

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Youth Labor Markets in the U.S : Shopping Around vs. Staying Put

Neumark, David - 1998

The need for school-to-work programs or other means of increasing early job market stability is predicated on the view … determination of early job stability as a response to job match quality which may also influence adult wages using labor market … conditions in the early years in the labor market as instrumental variables for the job stability experienced during those years …

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Job Stability in the United States

Diebold, Francis X. - 1994

Two key attributes of a job are its wage and its duration. Much has been made of changes in the wage distribution in the 1980s, but little attention has been given to job durations since Hall (1982). We fill this void by examining the temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor...

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Job Security and Work Force Adjustment : How Different are U.S. and Japanese Practices?

Abraham, Katharine G. - 1989

in the two countries. Although workers in Japan enjoy greater employment stability than do U.S. workers, we find …

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Information-Based Pricing in Specialized Lending

Blickle, Kristian; He, Zhiguo; Huang, Jing; Parlatore, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study specialized lending in a credit market competition model with private information. Two banks, equipped with similar data processing systems, possess "general" signals regarding the borrower's quality. However, the specialized bank gains an additional advantage through further...

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

Autor, David H. - 2007

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms … mandated employment protections reduce productive efficiency as theory would suggest. However, our analysis also presents some …

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